My sourdough starter,
made from flour, water
equal parts by weight
fed awakened in the morning
before it’s time to bake,
when the starter bubbles
I mix with the strongest
flour I can find
for taste some rye
some salt,
then stretch and fold
until gluten binds,
from sticky into smooth
it swells a bit and just before
I head to bed,
the loaf is shaped
into a basket in the fridge.
The morning after
I heat the oven
with my cast-iron pot
and scored the loaf
is baked
until the loaf is ready
to rest until it cools.
This is not a recipe
it’s a method that I learned
from Youtube I’ll admit
but nowadays I find
that bread I buy is less
while mine is more.
Today we are given a sort of carte blanche by Punam at dVerse to celebrate the upcoming Diwali. We could write about cleaning, cooking your favourite dish, the joy of giving or how you celebrate your favourite festival. My choice was to write about bread-making.
October 29, 2024
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Yummie ^^;
Tack
yours is definitely more because its so alive
“fed awakened in the morning
before it’s time to bake,”
and so is the poem
Thank you… I find it hard to eat any other bread nowadays
“but nowadays I find
that bread I buy is less
while mine is more.”
How wonderful, Björn! I think nothing is more satisfying than baking your own bread. After my first disastrous attempt, I have never tried baking sourdough bread again. Your lovely ode to bread making inspires me to try again.
I made an effort a many years ago and gave up too… but then I felt inspired and really gave it another go and it worked so well..
I will follow your lead then.
Wow!! Happy breadmaking. I could never make bread like my mother. Even now at age 74 i still remember the taste of my mother’s breads
much♡love
I make better bread than my mother did 🙂
Bet your house fills with sweet life when that bread is baking! I can smell it from here.
Sweet smell, and even better taste.
Homemade…definitely….miles better, and cheaper too…well worth the effort…we create our own poems after all, and don’t buy them at the supermarket…
The best since sliced bread 🤮🤮🤮
Yummy. I love sour dough bread.
I do too… and once you have started it is almost fail safe.
Very true. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Wow! This sounds amazing, Bjorn. The bread, poem and as well as the title are wonderfully delicious. 🙂
Thank you… your own bread is the best… and my sourdough is now 5 years old….
Wow, that’s amazing. Well done 👏
Well, for me this WAS a recipe … I already knew the ingredients and have made it more than several times, however your poem shed a whole new light on the “process.” Cheers.
Homemade bread is definitely the best. There’s an added ingredient called love making it more!
Yum! Nothing like homeade bread.
I can see that if we ever meet in person, Björn, we may have a long conversation on the subject of bread…
I am intrigued as to why the final rise is in the fridge overnight?
Bread baking can be very satisfying indeed. I’m glad that you found a recipe and a method that works. Glad to know that yours is more and better than the store bought stuff. Loved this, Björn!
You made my mouth water!
A lovely poem, Bjorn. I made bread for 2 years during Covid. Now, with Michael needing to be taken to school and going into the office twice a week, I just don’t manage it.
Ah… I started during Covid and managed to keep at it.
That is great.
Homemade bread is always better.
I haven’t bake bread in a while. Yours looks excellent!