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Learn How to Bake Sourdough with BBC Good Food 

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Overview

Duration

5 weeks

Total fee

900

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Learn How to Bake Sourdough with BBC Good Food
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Learn How to Bake Sourdough with BBC Good Food
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Highlights

  • Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate.
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  • On this course, you will learn how to bake the perfect sourdough bread. Alongside baking gurus at BBC Good Food, you will get top tips and tricks to make delicious sourdough loaves, pizza bases, and more.
  • Sourdough is notoriously tricky to get right. Many websites will give you advice on how to bake with sourdough, but BBC Good Foods tried-and-tested method comes with a high success rate and guaranteed accessibility.
  • You will get a beginners guide on how to make and care for a sourdough starter, how to keep it alive, and how to put it to good use in a great bake going from flour and salt to loaf of bread.
  • After the introductory first week, you will go on to learn how to autolyse, prove, shape, and score sourdough.
  • You will understand how to deal with fluctuations in weather, what to look for in ingredients, and what bakeware and kitchen equipment you need.
  • You will also explore how to use leftover starter, as well as how to bake enriched doughs, sourdough pizza bases, and sourdough flatbreads.
  • BBC Good Food has been providing cooks worldwide with accessible and innovative recipes for over thirty years.
  • You will learn from their expert bakers not only how to bake better sourdough, but how to become a better cook improving recipes, exploring new flavours, and changing your techniques to leave friends and family coming back for more!
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Learn How to Bake Sourdough with BBC Good Food
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Curriculum

Starting sourdough

Introduction to sourdough

Making your starter

What you will need for making bread

Getting ready to make your first batch of dough

Baking a basic loaf

Making a dough

Shaping and baking

Basic loaf troubleshooting

Your second loaf

Beyond basics

Introducing different flours

Shaping and advanced scoring techniques

Crumb structure and evaluating your loaves

Baker's percentages and hydration

New shapes and focaccia

How to read and interpret recipes

Shaping bread dough

Next steps: Baking on trays, stencilling and flavour changes

Focaccia

Pizza and sweet bakes

Sourdough pizza

Enriched doughs and cinnamon buns

How to make a fruited sourdough

Sourdough recap: What we've learned in this course

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