Description
Sourdough bread made from rye is a healthy alternative to wheat, has a rich history and is so tasty! Learn how to create 100% wholegrain rye sourdough breads in your own kitchen, whether you are a novice or seasoned baker.
Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics
Rye is an ancient grain packed with a rich, deep flavor that has a long history of being used to make bread. It’s low in gluten and brought to life in sourdough loaves, making an exciting, tasty, and healthy alternative to wheat.
In Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics, you’ll learn everything you need to know to create delicious, nutritious 100% wholegrain rye sourdough bread in your own kitchen, whether you are a complete beginner or a seasoned baker. You’ll be taught why rye is a wonderful flour for sourdough starters, and be walked through, step-by-step, creating your own. Then, armed with this starter, you’ll create a rye bread you can make and eat daily, along with a more adventurous Russian-style rye loaf. You’ll also also learn ways in which you can use your sourdough discard to create even more rye deliciousness!
You will learn:
• From over 240 minutes of step-by-step video, plus photos and downloadable instructions (all available to keep, forever)
• Why rye is such a great choice for sourdough bread, including its health benefits and history
• How to create a 100% wholegrain rye starter from scratch and how to easily maintain this starter, no matter how often you bake
• How to create a reliable, delicious everyday wholegrain rye sourdough bread
• How to use more advanced techniques to create a Russian-style wholegrain rye sourdough bread
• How to use your sourdough discard, including recipes for wholegrain rye pancakes and spice bread
Course curriculum
Welcome & Course Overview
Module 1: Why Rye & Why Whole Grain?
• The rich history of rye and rye breads
• Why rye, why wholegrain and why sourdough
• Bread-making with rye: The low down – part 1 – introduction
• Bread-making with rye: The low down – part 2 – comparison
• Bread-making with rye: The low down – part 3 – the bottom line
• In pictures! Bread-making with rye v. bread-making with wheat
• Sourcing your flour, grinding grain and storing rye
Module 2: How To Make & Maintain a Rye Sourdough Starter
• Get ready for this module!
• What is a sourdough starter and why use wholegrain rye?
• The equipment you’ll need
• In pictures! Downloadable starter creation and maintenance graphic.
• How to create a rye sourdough starter
• How to maintain a rye sourdough starter
• Rye sourdough starter FAQs
Module 3: The Breads: Equipment & What To Expect
• Useful equipment for baking rye sourdough bread
• Equipment listing to download
• How to tent a loaf tin with aluminium foil
• What to expect from your breads
Module 4: Everyday Rye Sourdough Bread
• Introduction to the everyday rye sourdough loaf
• Everyday rye sourdough bread recipe to download
• Making the pre-ferment
• Mixing the main dough
• Panning your fermented bread
• Is your bread ready to bake?
• Just out of the oven!
Module 5: Russian Borodinsky-Style Rye Sourdough Bread
• Introduction to the Russian Borodinsky-style rye sourdough bread
• What to expect from the Russian Borodinsky-style rye sourdough bread
• Russian Borodinsky-style rye sourdough bread recipe to download
• Making the scald
• Making the sponge
• Combining the sponge & scald
• Mixing the main dough
• Shaping and panning the fermented bread
• Is your bread ready to bake?
• Just out of the oven!
Module 6: Ways to Use Your Sourdough Discard
• Sourdough porridge, polenta and polenta bread
• Sourdough pancakes
• Downloadable sourdough pancakes recipe
• Rye discard spice bread
• Dowanloadable rye discard spice bread recipe
Module 7: Where Now? Inspiration, Thank You & A Gift
• Where next with your rye sourdough bread
• Thank you and a gift for you
• More inspiration and help
Nicole Porteous –
I found this course to be exactly what I was looking for. A course that showed me how to create a sourdough bread from 100% local wholegrain rye. So many rye recipes use a portion of white flour and I wasn’t interested in them. I wanted a fully wholegrain solution. The results are fantastic! The everyday rye bread tastes better than many sourdough rye bread I am able to buy from professional bakers… With Alison’s help, I was able to create a truly healthy robust starter that I look forward to baking with the years to come. I can heartily recommend this course to anyone interested in perfecting their baking with rye or really anybody interested in having a super starter for all their other sourdough projects.
Elaine Kippenhahn –
Alison explains very well how to prepare and bake the breads, step-by-step. It makes it very easy and the results are wonderful! I’m not new to sourdough and wholegrain but rye and I always had a difficult relationship…now we are best friends! Thank you Alison you did a very good job.
Dana Horton –
I’m so glad I signed up for this course!…You did an excellent job of explaining everything and am so looking forward to baking fresh bread again. Thank you!
Lori Sietsema –
Alison has wonderful instructions and my bread turned out great. It’s delicious! I highly recommend this course.
Judy Jones –
This course is incredible! Alison’s teaching is thorough and easy to follow. I’m so grateful for her expertise and encouragement.