Bryan Ford

(I originally wrote this as a private review, but years later decided to make it public.) I have been making sourdough bread for more than 25 years. There's no easy (or kind-sounding) way to say this: I do not understand at all how others have given this collection of recipes good reviews. They are error-ridden and turn out terribly. The corrections to the recipes are available on the author's website; however, he didn't even bother updating the Kindle edition with those corrections (which is what I originally bought and then returned for a refund). I tried 4 different recipes and they ALL were really quite terrible. Ratios were very wrong and came out as bricks -- particularly the English Muffin recipe. Yikes. I fear this was rushed to publication during the pandemic without enough testing and reviews. I'm sure the author is an absolutely fantastic baker, but this publication does not reflect that. If you are new to baking, this book could lead you to believe you just don't know what you are doing -- but it's NOT you, so be encouraged.… (mais)

While baking since 10+ years, still this books recipes so far have been super easy to follow, tasty and very successfully baked - close to how it's shown in the pictures (even though replacing some of the flours with whole grains of various sorts).

Focus really is on the recipes, and the relatively small list offers a great variety of baked goods.

Great also - this is few ingredients, no fuss, no 'parts of a gram', flexible baking, just how I like it. And it works.

One of my favorite baking books, now.… (mais)