Quick and Simple Homemade Sourdough: Beginner Bread Recipes by Jane Mason - Cookery - Paperback

Details
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781802421842
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Books Ltd

Overview
Quick and Simple Homemade Sourdough by Jane Mason is a beginner-friendly cookbook that strips away the mystery around sourdough baking. Written for home cooks who want achievable results, it covers everything from feeding a starter for the first time through to baking mixed grain loaves, onion and olive bread, and everyday rye. Clear instructions, honest troubleshooting advice and useful background on ingredients make this paperback a genuinely approachable introduction to artisan bread making at home.

About the Book
Sourdough has a reputation for being fiddly, but this book sets out to prove otherwise. Organised into chapters built around different styles of loaf, it guides readers through feeding and maintaining a starter, shaping dough with confidence, and managing proving times without guesswork. Each chapter offers a curated set of recipes introducing new techniques and flavours gradually, so bakers build real skills rather than being overwhelmed from day one. Jane Mason devotes a section to troubleshooting the problems that put beginners off sourdough — flat loaves, dense crumbs, sluggish starters — with clear, practical fixes. There's also helpful context on ingredients and fermentation, giving readers a better understanding of why traditional methods work. Comforting loaves sit alongside adventurous flavour ideas, so there's always another bake worth trying, whether the aim is an everyday loaf or something special for guests.

Key Benefits

• Beginner-friendly, step-by-step recipes for classic and contemporary sourdough loaves
• Dedicated recipes covering mixed grain, rye, and flavoured breads like onion and olive
• Clear, confidence-building guidance on starting, feeding and maintaining a sourdough starter
• A practical troubleshooting section addressing common beginner baking problems
• Useful background information on ingredients and the health aspects of fermented bread
• A thoughtful gift for anyone starting their home baking journey

About the Author
Jane Mason is the author of Quick and Simple Homemade Sourdough, a practical baking guide written to help everyday home bakers master sourdough with genuine confidence. Drawing on hands-on baking experience, she favours clear, no-nonsense instructions over overly technical methods, making the book accessible to complete beginners while still offering enough variety to keep more experienced bakers engaged. Her approach favours reliable, repeatable results over complicated techniques.

Why You'll Love This Cookbook
Straightforward, encouraging and genuinely beginner-friendly, this paperback demystifies sourdough baking without dumbing it down. It's the ideal choice for anyone who has been put off by fiddly methods and wants real, bakeable results from their own kitchen.

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