Floorbaked sour dough bread baked on a hot pizza stone or ceramic tile gets fluffier and has a softer crust than when I bake the same bread in a breadform. Since the stone gets very hot, I use a handmade pizza peel to slide the dough onto the stone, see below.

Water, flour, sourdough starter and a pinch of salt, the classic way to bake bread. We bake four french rolls of sourdough bread a week, either white sourdough bread or wheat sourdough bread.I make the dough and replace the sour dough starter Sundays. Depending on the time of year, it takes the dough a few hours or overnight to rise, I bake the bread when dough is ready on Monday morning for breakfast. Eat half a roll, freeze the rest.

We don’t buy yeast, we throw flour in the air over a large bowl and catch airborne natural yeast in the kitchen, honestly. I learned this from Tartine’s Bakery in San Francisco. I also replaced my front lawn with 60’x20’ rows of red winter wheat and rows of fava beans. With winter rains, we expect 60 to 90 lbs. of wheat come summer.Once you have this sour dough starter, you use a cup and add a cup every time you bake. I keep the same sour dough starter for white bread. For wheatbread, I add wheat flour and keep a second starter. I add dark rye flour to the wheat starter for dark rye bread.Overnight dough, fresh warm crusty San Francisco bread in an hour in the morning.

I was never a fan of chocolatey bread until I made this. Using a sourdough and long fermentation time gives it great flavor. I love using dark molasses to make it extra dark and to give it more complexity. Eat with good butter for a divine experience ;)The total time is about 18 hours, but it's mostly waiting time:Pre-dough - 12 hoursFirst rising - 2 hoursSecond rise - 3 hoursBake time - 35 minutes

This is very easy and simple bread!

A dense yet moist type of bread,With a slight tangy taste like sourdough,Relatively simple to make.#RealBreadWeek

makes tasty toast