Proof: The Home Baker's Sourdough BookAilsa BarrFor home bakers who want to bake better bread
Proof: The Home Baker's Sourdough Book, from a first loaf to rye
by Ailsa Barr, founder and head baker of Proof Bread School
Bake a sourdough loaf you're proud to slice into, then rye and enriched doughs, with 60 recipes written in plain words and real quantities by a baker with fifteen years at the ovens of a working bakery. Hardback, 220 pages, £28, delivered across the UK.
I bake from it every Saturday, and my rye is now the loaf my family asks for.
Morag, home baker, Stockbridge
From a home baker in Edinburgh
My loaves always came out flat, and I never knew why. I followed the first loaf in Proof, weighed everything exactly as written, and that Saturday I sliced into a tall loaf I was proud of.
Inside the book
A working baker's recipes, written for your kitchen
Bake your first sourdough loaf
The book starts at the beginning, with every step of a first loaf written out in plain words.
Weigh every ingredient
Each recipe gives the amounts to weigh, so you know exactly what goes in the bowl.
Keep it open on the counter
A hardback to have open beside you while your hands are in the dough.
Move on to rye
When your everyday loaf comes out the way you want, carry on to rye breads.
Bake enriched doughs
The softer breads made with butter, eggs or milk, baked from the same book.
Work through 60 recipes
220 pages and 60 recipes, so there's always a next bake to try.
The baker behind the book
Hi, I'm Ailsa
I've spent fifteen years at the ovens of a working bakery, and I'm the founder and head baker here at Proof Bread School. The bakery taught me to read a dough by hand and eye, to trust the scales over guesswork, and to bake the same good loaf day after day.
I wrote Proof for home bakers who want a loaf they're proud of, and for anyone whose loaves come out flat. Each recipe is written the way I teach: one step at a time, as if I were beside you at the counter.
Ailsa
Hardback · 220 pages · 60 recipes
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