This month, we encourage you to bake delicious sourdough bread yourself or purchase authentic loaves from small independent bakeries. As this month highlights the craft of sourdough making, we encourage you to bake and share your bread on your Instagram stories. And, as always, whenever possible, choose organic ingredients for baking!
Organic Flour for Baking
Doves Farm
Doves Farm started with a passion, as all good things do. Driven by a fascination with wholegrains and organic farming, founders Clare and Michael Marriage sowed their first seeds in 1977 with the simple idea of making great quality wholemeal flour from grain grown to the toughest organic standards.
Explore the Doves Farm flour range here
Marriage's
The Marriage family has been milling quality flour in Essex for almost 200 years, and they pride themselves on supporting Britain’s food and farming industry. Wherever possible, they use wheat grown within 30 miles of Chelmer Mills, and several of their flours are Red Tractor accredited.
Explore the Marriage's lour range here
Sourdough recipes
Sourdough Wholemeal Bread
Made with the simple basic ingredients of flour and water, you cannot hurry sourdough bread making.
For additional guidance with hints and tips, see the Guide to Sourdough Making alongside a handy Sourdough Starter Chart.
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Recipe by Doves Farm
Sourdough White Rye Bread
There are three distinct stages to making a sourdough loaf, the starter, the ferment and the dough. A rye starter will take 3 to 4 days to develop and then another 4–12 hours to be transformed into the ferment necessary for sourdough bread making. The finished loaf will have appealing and complex sour notes that are an ideal complement for rye flour.
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Recipe by Doves Farm
Sourdough Light Rye Tin Loaf
A rye starter will take 3 to 4 days to develop and then another 4–12 hours to be transformed into the ferment necessary for sourdough bread making.
The finished loaf will have appealing and complex sour notes that are an ideal complement for rye flour.
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Recipe by Doves Farm