CONTENTS

Introduction

1 Tools & Techniques

Ingredients

Working with your oven

Working the dough

Resting & folding

Dividing the dough

Shaping the dough

Proving

Achieving the crust

What about the weather?

2 Slow

Sourdough & other types of fermentation

Making Sourdough

Refreshing your ferment

Making your Sourdough bread

Variations

Baguette with a Poolish ferment

Ale and yeast Poolish

Autolyse method

Bread with fermented dough

3 Different

Seeded bread

Spelt bread

Dark rye bread with raisins

Breton bread

Cabernet grape flour bread

Khorason flour bread

Ciabatta

Pain Brie

Chestnut flour bread

Bagels

Pretzels

Buckwheat blinis

Sushi rolls

Flamiche

4 Sweet

Croissants

Variations

Almond croissants

Stollen

Brioche

Far Breton

Mr Z’s gingerbread biscuits

My Bath buns

Additional recipes

5 Fact & Fiction

About bread

Ideas for leftover bread

Suppliers and sources

Index