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For some time our "Introduction to Sourdough" booklet was our hottest
download. The book was, and still is, an integral part of our "Introduction to
Sourdough" class, and the recipes have been student tested. However,
we pulled it off the web page about a year ago because we wanted to
make it better. And now, it's better than before, and it's ready for
you to purchase on the
Mike's Bread Shoppe page.
The free sampler
is our way of letting you take a look at parts of the book to see if you want
to spend money on the book. The sampler is actually part of the previous
version of the book... we plan on updating the sampler "real soon now." In any
case, we hope you'll like the sampler enough that you'll want to buy the new
book. The sampler is available
here.
We feel the sampler is enough to get you started, to help you a lot, and to
whet your appetite for our full book with more recipes, more pictures, and more
hints.
Our three stage converter
spreadsheet let's you
convert the three stage French Pain au Levain process outlined in
"The Bread Builders"
to manageable quantities. Of course, if you want 168 kilograms (370
pounds) of dough perhaps you don't need this converter.... just check
out the
three stage French recipe.
The
spreadsheet has been re-designed to allow you to change the amount of
dough you want to produce at each of the three stages of the recipe,
and to change the hydration of each step. This will let you play with
the recipe and create the bread you want to make more easily.
Mike's Breads Worksheet For some time, we've worked on recipes scribbling notes on any sheet of paper that was handy. After a while, it got old, so now we use this handy worksheet we created. Each sheet lets you track 5 trials of a recipe, with up to 10 ingredients. It's a good, old fashioned kitchen-friendly printed paper solution. Just download our pdf files, print 'em, and enjoy 'em. All we ask is that you not remove our nifty logo. We have also made available a sample worksheet used to work out a recipe for our sourdough bohemian rye bread. Just right click on the link to download the worksheet or the sample worksheet. If you have suggestions, just drop us a note from our "Contact Us" page.
Sourdough Converter Spreadsheet
In response to a number of requests, we've added the ability to work
with weights instead of just volume measurements to
Mike's Sourdough Converter Spreadsheet.
This
makes it easier to scale professional recipes you might encounter. This
is on top of the fairly recent extensive re-write of
Mike's Sourdough Converter Spreadsheet.
It's as
easy to use as ever, but now it lets you convert yeasted recipes to
sourdough, convert from one
starter
to another, change the amount of
starter
you use in your recipes, and also adjust the batch size so you can make
more, or less, of your favorite breads. Also, I've added the "loaves"
line, so you can easily tell how many loaves you are making. The
spreadsheet supports the use of up to four flours in your
starter.
Comments are, of course, welcome.
A note to frustrated visitors. Not all browsers will automatically download the XLS file. They will try to open them. In that case, you'll see a couple of letters on screen. The work-around, until I figure out how to handle the downloads better, is to right-click on the file's tag, and then tell your browser you want to download it. Sorry about the difficulty.
