Author: Darryl Alder

Cracker Day Meets #CrackerDay

In the USA, the term “cracker” most often refers to salty or savory biscuits, but in the UK crackers are might be water biscuits or savory biscuits. Either way, today, #CrackerDay, is a good day to highlight sourdough crackers by making and baking a batch. And honestly, nothing could be easier to make than these crackers built on a base of your sourdough discard.

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Celebrating National Zucchini Bread Day the Sourdough Way

NATIONAL ZUCCHINI BREAD DAY held on April 25th each year, encourages bakers every where to bake this delicious bread. And just like bananas, and applesauce, zucchini makes this baked loaf moist and a bit more nutritious. However, for those of us who use sourdough, it is a terrific excuse to use up some discard and bake yummy quick bread.

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SOURDOUGH UKRAINIAN EASTER PASKA

The practice of making Paska for Easter can be traced back to the earliest days of the Orthodox Christian church which traditionally offers a sweetened “communion” bread during its celebrations. In this recipe adapted for sourdough, our enriched dough has butter, eggs, and milk, is flavored with fresh citrus zest and is loaded with golden raisins.

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