Wild Yeast Baking - Learn The Art Of Sourdough Bread

Reconnect with the cycles of life through the simple pleasure of wild yeast baking from scratch.

What you'll learn
Bake true artisan wheat sourdough bread step by step from scratch
Make a sourdough culture from scratch with just flour and water
Manage your sourdough culture, understand cycles of fermentation and develop the culture to work optimally
Achieve tall loaves with open crumb structure with an artisan folding technique with little to no kneading
Use the professional tool 'baker's percentage' to develop understanding of how ratios of ingredients affect the fermentation process and the end result
Use your senses to judge the various stages of fermentation
Shape your loaves using professional techniques
Optimise conditions for a shiny, crusty crust and craggy, handsome score marks on your loaves
Understand how wild yeast baking works to release creativity beyond recipes
Use baking as a gateway to understanding nature and feeling connected to it, a part of it
Requirements
No experience in sourdough baking is required, but some experience in baking bread will be of benefit.
Description
Sourdough baking is not just about ingredients, measurements and techniques. For me and my family, it's been part of an evolution towards a more connected life. It has served as a vehicle for connecting with my senses and my soul, my community, nature as a whole and my place in it.For me, it's also a creative process in which you are engaged with all your senses, reaching flow states as if you are dancing with the dough. This is possible when you're not just adhering to a recipe, but understand how the ratios of ingredients and surrounding conditions affect the dough. Then you are free to play!My husband and I went from a passion for baking to running a co-operative artisan bakery to meeting many of our needs on a homestead. After baking dozens of different specialities, our family go-to-loaf is a simple wheaten sourdough Country Bread with a gorgeous, soft and open crumb and a subtle sourdough flavour, perfect as savoury sandwiches and scrumptious as toast with homemade jam.This course gives you the recipe for Country Bread and takes you through professional artisan sourdough techniques in clear and simple stages, but it also gives you the tools to understand the principles of how sourdough works, so you too can be creative and dance with the dough.The course contains all the tools and everything you need to know in a compact format, so you don’t need to trawl through hours of content to check how to shape a baton or test the ripeness of your starter. With expertly edited on-point video content and extended notes that support the video tutorials, you’ll find it easy to practice wild yeast baking and keep coming back for instruction you need at any stage of the process.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Wild Yeast Baking Course

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Sourdough culture: Harnessing wild yeast

Lecture 2 How to make a successful sourdough culture using flour and water

Section 3: The Build

Lecture 3 Making a sourdough build

Section 4: The recipe and using baker's percentage

Lecture 4 The principle of 'baker's percentage'

Section 5: Mixing the dough

Lecture 5 Mixing the dough

Section 6: Bulk fermentation and folding

Lecture 6 The artisan technique of folding

Section 7: Dividing and pre-shaping

Lecture 7 Dividing and pre-shaping of the dough

Section 8: Shaping the loaves

Lecture 8 Shaping the loaves

Section 9: Proving, scoring and baking

Lecture 9 Proving, scoring and baking

Beginner bread bakers or sourdough bakers,Intermediate bakers wanting to learn professional artisan techniques for sourdough baking,Intermediate sourdough bakers looking to deepen their understanding of the process to release creativity beyond recipes,Anyone seeking to connect with their needs as a human; with nature, with community