Here you will find baking resources – three books and a bread formula spreadsheet. Yours for whatever you feel is the appropriate price to pay.
1. “Sourdough: your guidebook to the world of Naturally Leavened Bread”
Totally revised and updated version of my 2010 book “Bethesdabasics – Sourdough Made Simple”. This version published in 2016.
Includes:
- Making a Starter
- Equipment
- Flours
- Breadmaking Methods & Techniques complete with photographic step-by-step guides.
PLUS a baker’s dozen of 13 recipes from across the full baking spectrum:
- Pain de Campagne
- Classic Sourdough
- Wholemeal
- 5 Seed with Spelt
- Multigrain
- Baguettes
- Tomato Bread with Sundried Tomatoes
- 100% Russian Rye
- Parmesan & Courgette Flatbread
- Fig & Cheese Brioche
- Pizza Dough + Topping Recipe
- Wheat Tortillas + Mexican Feast Recipe
- Red Grape & Fennel Seed Focaccia
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2. “Microbakin’ – Baking Bread For Sale at Home“
How to run a microbakery in your own house. The book is both an entertaining history and description of how my microbakery, Bethesdabakers, was set up and run between 2007-2012 and a guide to starting your own home-based business.
After the Introduction, the book has five more chapters:
Progress, how I arrived at the decision to bake for profit from home
Microbakery, an account of how the bakery operated, the equipment that had to be bought, the spreadsheet systems I developed to organise the work
The Actuality. Can you hack it? – a two day bake in action
Customers & Communities, the realities of working with customers and unforeseen satisfactions
Final Thoughts, issues you need to consider before starting your own microbakery together with some useful addresses.
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3. “Bara Blas – Pobi syml gyda lefain surdoes”
Welsh language version of Bethesdabasics freely translated by Dafydd Chilton.
“Canllaw ymarferol a syml i bobi bara gyda lefain naturiol gan Mick Hartley, y pobydd arbenigol o Fethesda a phrif bencampwr bara Gŵyl Fwyd Llwydlo 2007.
Llyfryn sy’n gosod allan mewn lluniau lliw, gam ar y tro, y cwbl sydd angen ei wybod – y cymysgu, y siapio a’r pobi – i chi allu gwneud eich bara go iawn eich hun.
Mae’r llyfryn yn cynnwys nifer helaeth o ryseitiau bara blasus a’r rheiny wedi eu dethol yn ofalus o ar draws y byd.
Mae o hefyd yn cynnwys manylion sut i gael y gefnogaeth barhaus, yr wybodaeth a’r rhyseitiau ychwanegol y mae Mick yn eu cynnig ar-lein i bobyddion newydd.
Dyma’r anrheg berffaith i unrhyw un sydd o ddifrif ynglŷn â bwyd da.”
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4. Breadsheet One – July 2020
Downloadable spreadsheet containing all of the bread formulas currently on the website.
- Spreadsheet calculator that allows you to change the dough weight and number of loaves to be baked
- Brief instructions where the formula varies from the basic method + a link direct to the full method on the website
- Template for adding your own formulas and developing a digital library of recipes
- Bakers’ Percentage calculator – simply type in your ingredient weights
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