2 Easy Bread Recipes That Aren't Sourdough
Plus an online sourdough starter workshop
My daughter Charlotte started making sourdough bread this summer. (Her starter Stonn bubbles like crazy!) I think she found sourdough fairly simple to make because she had had lots of practice baking bread with baker’s yeast.
If you’ve never baked bread and have wanted to try it, these two simple bread recipes will help ease you into baking your own. And if you do bake bread regularly, make these simply because they taste really good.
Irish soda bread
Difficulty level: very easy
When yeast disappeared from store shelves at the beginning of Covid last year, I imagine many people baked more soda bread for the first time. Authentic soda bread calls for just four common ingredients: flour, baking soda, salt and buttermilk. (If you don’t have buttermilk, “make” it by combining milk and either lemon juice or vinegar.) I also add caraway seeds, dried fruit and, if I have it, orange zest, making this more of an Irish-ish American soda bread.
Go here for the soda bread recipe.
Charlotte’s easy whole-wheat sandwich bread
Difficulty level: easy
Charlotte told me I needed a sandwich bread recipe on my website that calls for baker’s yeast and baked in a loaf-pan (she prefers loaf-shaped slices that fit nicely in the toaster). Fortunately, she saved me some work and developed a recipe herself. If you’ve never baked bread with baker’s yeast, you’ll find this one fairly easy.
Go here for the sandwich bread recipe.
Free sourdough starter class
If you would like to try your hand at sourdough, I’ll teach a free online sourdough starter class Thursday, October 21st at 4pm Pacific Time. Bring a jar, flour and water and I’ll show you how to start a starter culture and how to keep it alive. I’ll answer as many questions as I can after the demo.
Get more sourdough recipes in my cookbook.
