Author Archives: Barry W
First Impressions: My Mockmill 100 Professional home grain-mill
Background: The events leading up to receiving my Mockmill 100 Professional home grain-mill brought together my passion for learning as much as I can about every ingredient that I cook and bake with and my drive to meet and get … Continue reading
Color Coded Corn Porridge Loaves: An exercise in sourdough recipe development
When getting started with sourdough baking finding a sourdough starter guide and beginner recipe to follow are often one’s first steps. However, anxious moments ensue when things don’t appear to be going as described and research shifts to troubleshooting articles, … Continue reading
Meet The Baker Behind The Loaves: Sarah Owens of Ritual Fine Foods
While one of the primary reasons that I started this series was to tell each baker’s unique story through the lens of an interview comprised of personalized questions. I chose to ask every baker the following question. “Sourdough bread is … Continue reading
TBP Feature: An Audio-Visual tour of Castle Valley Mill (Doylestown, PA)
While I’ve been homebrewing beer since 2009, I’ve yet to visit a malt house or interview a maltster. However, ever since dipping both feet into sourdough baking this past April, I’ve done increasingly more research on the cultivation and milling … Continue reading
Meet the Baker Behind the Loaves: Mark and Fran Fischer of Castle Valley Mill
This past July I was three months into my sourdough baking journey and spending lots of time perusing social media and researching ingredients, recipes and techniques. It so happened that towards the end of the month, a cousin of mine … Continue reading
Meet the Baker Behind the Loaves: Kevin Morse of Cairnspring Mills
Going beyond the grocery store shelf to find what makes up the foods we eat and where the ingredients that we cook and bake with come from, often leads to some eye opening discoveries. Taking one from goods defined by … Continue reading
Meet the Baker Behind the Loaves: Hannah Dela Cruz of Make It Dough
Adapt, bake, and share. Three tasks that every baker, sourdough or not, completes each time he or she bakes. Adapting entails paying attention to things like the weather (or local climate), hydration limits of flour, time, and recipe constraints. Next, … Continue reading
Meet the Baker Behind the Loaves: Living Bread Is…
So far the last question of every Meet the Baker Behind the Loaves series article has been “Sourdough bread is often called “living bread.” What do the terms “living bread” and “living food” mean to you? ” In this video … Continue reading
Meet The Baker Behind the Loaves: Inna Surita-Emmons of The Flour Floozy
Epiphany (noun)- a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. Appearance, texture, aroma, and flavor; sourdough bread has them all in abundance. … Continue reading
Veggie Fermentation: Make your own condiments and sandwich toppings
Before we get to the recipes, I’d like to define the two most popular vegetable fermentation methods: Lacto-fermentation (according to The Spruce Eats) The good bacteria on the salt-tolerant team are called Lactobacillus. Several different species within this genus are used … Continue reading










