Recipe collections

Basic sourdough bread made with ‘old dough’ or pâte fermentée. This method uses a reserved chunk of dough instead of a starter and it makes for a tasty, long lasting, flavoursome new sourdough loaf.

Borodinsky bread is Russian rye sourdough, with its history going back to Napoleonic wars. Great for gut health, this rye sourdough loaf is named after the battle of Borodino.

Buckwheat sourdough bloomer, a handsome loaf with the addition of buckwheat flour in the mix which makes it wonderfully chewy and very flavoursome.

Cherry chocolate bread, sourdough based brioche filled with a mix of white chocolate chips, glace cherries and almond flakes. It's easy to make with yeast instead, and the perfect weekend breakfast idea.

Savoury sourdough couronne bread, crusty French round bread made from San Francisco-style sourdough. Sourdough starter sponge in the evening, crown shaped bread early next afternoon!

Fermented buckwheat bread: the most natural and the healthiest loaf possible, with a great flavour, and wholly gluten free.

Pain the campagne, sourdough bread made with wheat starter. Sourdough starter I find fickle – I know it can live for ever, only refreshed every now and then, but my best results have been with fresh, four days old leaven so that’s the approach I suggest here. Veteran sourdough makers though – please use whatever wheat starter you have on the go.

Seelen means souls in German, and in Schwabia it means fantastically tasty spelt sourdough bread rolls, rustic and completely artisan.

Golden Gate bridge rolls - white sourdough bread rolls, crusty and chewy. Now since approximately 2005 I have not bought a loaf of bread in the shop unless in high emergency or to measure up competition. But I saw and fancied some perfectly square and smooth, pale golden bread rolls they had there and of course: ‘I wonder how they are made?’

Cinnamon honey buns glazed with butter and honey, made from sourdough. Sure enough, honey buns recipes galore out there. And the most interesting fact about them is that they seem to be much valued prison currency and I’m not using any slang here.

Crusty and chewy French dimple rolls with whole grains and malted wheat flakes. A recently refreshed sourdough starter, malted flakes or powder, some whole grains and a dimple.

Discover the magic of sourdough bread with the one and only sourdough bread recipe. This is a masterpiece of crusty goodness and complex, tangy flavours.

Recipe for pain Poilâne, whole grain stoneground sourdough bread. Poilâne style miche is a large rustic loaf made with natural sourdough leavening.

Pull apart sourdough dinner rolls, white and wholemeal, with garlic, tomato, cheese and herb fillings. The perfect party bread! These sourdough dinner rolls are baked together to tear and share.

Rye sourdough bread on rye starter, made with 60% rye and some wheat flour, flavoured with caraway seeds. Let it cool completely before slicing; it's best after a day or two.

Sourdough light rye bread with yoghurt. Rye bread is usually thought of as dark, stodgy, dense and weird; Pumpernickel or Borodinsky. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that type of bread but it’s not ideal for toast with butter and jam, for instance.

San Francisco style sourdough is the top rated sourdough bread recipe. The history of the San Francisco sourdough bread goes back to the California Gold Rush of the late 19th century.

Pumpkin and sunflower seeded rye sourdough, German style blonde Pumpernickel. Sourdough on rye starter with only a small addition of wheat flour which can be replaced with spelt.

Seeded sourdough batons with barley, oats and millet grain fermented over four days. My obsession with sourdough isn’t letting up. I’ve got five little – not so little – pots of sour in the fridge, like Winnie the Pooh and his pots of huny.

Sourdough baguettes on wheat starter, fermenting over 36 hours. They taste like they came from a French boulangerie, and just look at those air bubbles…

Sweet sourdough pull apart buns filled with jam. Impossibly sticky, and that’s before the icing. The jam puddle at the bottom of the tin. Pull apart sweet buns are a nightmare to eat but such bliss.

Sourdough no knead white bread on starter made with pineapple juice. Very tasty bread – next time I’ll add some wholemeal or even whole grain flours for a sharper taste.

Soft crust sourdough sandwich bread in a Pullman loaf tin. It's square, it's sliceable and it's sourdough, a flavoursome tender loaf with soft and chewy crust.

Tartine style sourdough country bread including recipe for starter made from scratch. I promise: it's absolutely worth the time and the effort.

Traditional panettone made on sourdough starter known as lievito madre or pasta madre in Italian. Step-by-step recipe for classic panettone with gorgeous sugar glaze.

Tartine walnut bread recipe, the famous sourdough with toasted walnut chunks. This is the basic Tartine country sourdough bread recipe, with toasted walnuts folded into the dough.

Wholemeal sourdough loaf on rye starter. This is mainly aimed at those people who harbour pots and tubs of weird gunk in their fridges.

Wholemeal seeded sourdough loaf baked in a Dutch oven. It’s a very very decent loaf of bread, crusty all right, with open crumb as they say on expert forums - that’s air bubbles to you and me.

Bread leavened with wild yeast water made from fermented dried figs. Pure magic. Possibly the most organic, natural and fascinating way of creating food. It’s no longer fermentation – it’s alchemy.