Sourdough Success!!!

Kathy has been struggling recently with making the perfect sourdough loaf.  Perhaps it is the Winter season or the weather.  Who knows.  Because she has had great success in the past, and I have posted photographs of those loaves of bread.    Recently, it wouldn't rise enough or it wouldn't have a dark and crunchy crust.  She tried so many things.  Well, it turns out that Liz has a friend in Los Angeles who makes several loaves of this every week, and the other day, Liz sent us a photo of a loaf that Liz made, and it was just what Kathy was looking for.  So, following the directions that Liz used, this is the first try that Kathy did, and it is out of this world!

So one of the secrets is, that the loaf is baked in a "Dutch Oven" and the secret is, at some point as the baking is nearly done, the loaf is removed from the Dutch Oven and baked all by itself!  There were other issues of giving the bread a longer time to "proof" and also a rest period after the dough was deflated.  I cannot tell you how great it is to have fresh bread like THIS!  This is breakfast tomorrow!