Sourdough Root, Dough and Baking a Bread
I was loosing my mind with cryptic recipes and instructions to deal with sourdough so as a UX Designer I decided make this image with a timeline to help myself and other beginner bakers to get a better understanding of the baking process.
How to work with a sourdough root and dough
During this Corona isolation I have too much time on my hands which is actually really nice. As everyone seems to be baking sourdough bread I thought I’d give it a go as well.
My friend Lauri is a pro in baking sourdough bread so I asked him to share a recipe to get started with the root. He offered to give me part of his root as it would be much easier to start with than starting to make my own root.
So this week I got the root and put it into my fridge. My friend said it would stay alive even three weeks without using it. But I started to look for information and recipes immediately. There is so many details you need to consider and many beginners seemed to be failing. I was looking at the recipes how to start baking with the root but most of the recipes were cryptic and there were so many different steps to understand. So I started to make a timeline for baking on a post-it note for instructions from the book called Leipävallankumous by Eliisa Kuusela. However as a UX Designer I couldn’t help myself and came up drafting and designing this image with a timeline for the instructions. I hope it helps me and you, if you are as poor as I am in reading the instructions.
Here is the baking instructions (in Finnish) from Eliisa Kuusela’s book Leipävallankumous. My timeline image is related to this.
You will find more instructions and recipes to get started from this baking book.
I have updated the timeline image with this additional information. The whole image is seen below.
All the steps for working with the Rooth and the Dough
I will be updating these instructions while I get more knowledge and experience.
I will start baking the bread tomorrow, let’s see how it goes.
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Here it is! Yay!
This is my first ever sourdough bread baked 26 April 2020. It was too flat but I’ll keep iterating.
PS I used to write a blog Tasty Living Helsinki (in English) and Koemaistaja (in Finnish, doesn’t exist anymore) - Let’s see if I end up writing a post about my sourdough baking project to TLH blog.
By Anna Keski-Kohtamäki | 25 April 2020 | Updated 26 April 2020, 27 April 2020