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Easy Sourdough - Part 2

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Here we are again - its now Monday morning (normally a day I don't make bread!) however I've some dough I made up last night that needs attending to.

Last night the dough was left in a (relatively) cool place - about 18°C at about 9:45pm. It's now about 7:40am and I've taken the bowl of fermented dough up to the warmer bakehouse and stuck a thermometer in it:

As you can see, it's risen nicely and cooled down to 18°C. (And I was dopy enough to put my thumb over the camera lens - ah well)

Easy Sourdough - Part 1

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Decided to do another easy sourdough post - did one a while back on my own site, but after some discussion here where I posted a recipe which the person who started that thread had a bit of a disaster with, decided to give it a go with photos as I went.