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Sourdough: Recipes for Rustic Fermented Breads, Sweets, Savories, and More

Sourdough: Recipes for Rustic Fermented Breads, Sweets, Savories, and More

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Complete Recipe List HARVEST: Squash and Cherry Bread * Coconut Tahini Bars * Buckwheat Crepes with Chocolate Ganache * Harvest...

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Marc Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:
Complete Recipe List

HARVEST: Squash and Cherry Bread * Coconut Tahini Bars * Buckwheat Crepes with Chocolate Ganache * Harvest Bread with Hard Sauce * Bacon and Sage Cornbread * Carrot Pineapple Donuts with Tamarind Frosting * Sweet Potato Levain * Chicken, Purple Potato, and Olive Empanadas * Friendship Loaf * Persimmon, Pear, and Cranberry Tarte Tatin * Salsify Fritelle * Wild Rice, Herb, and Almond Levain * Beet Bread * Pomegranate and Zaatar-Spiced Focaccia * Roasted Chestnut Bread * Apple Hand-Pies with Cheddar Crust * Pizza con Funghi Selvaggi * Quince and Walnut Tea Cookies * Pear & Buckwheat Cake * Cranberry & Poppy Semolina Bread * Braised Oxtail Tacos in Flour Tortillas with Kohlrabi-Carrot Slaw * Vegetable Breadsticks * Persimmon Spice Cake * Blue Cheese and Walnut Crackers * Gingerbread Cake

DORMANCY: Sprouted Emmer Crisps * Nutbutter & Rye Cookies * Roasted Banana Marble Cake * Drunken Fig & Rye Loaf * Lemon Madeleines * Chocolate, Currant & Cinnamon Babka * Apricot and Pistachio Swirls * Chocolate Chipotle Kumquat Loaves * Walnut and Blue Cheese Fougasse * Lemon Curd Tart * Blood Orange Tartlets with Japanese Sweet Potato Cream * Indian Chutney Bialys * Chocolate Buckwheat Cookies * Saraguro Cheese Bread * Honeyed Spelt and Oat Levain * Lumberjane Loaf * Chocolate & Port Wine Beetroot Cake * Smoky Chili Bread * Bolón de Verde * Root Vegetable Casserole * Sundried Tomato Shortbreads * Pane di Farro

REBIRTH: Strawberry and Rhubarb Coffee Cake * Ramp and Carrot Tart with Hazelnut Rye Crust * Pork and Rhubarb Pot Pie * Spring Tartlets * Garlic Mustard Pesto * Fiddlehead Pizza * Burdock Burgers * Strawberry and Cardamom Dutch Baby * Violet Syrup * Candied Citrus Shortbread * Panna Cotta Cake * Dandelion and Chive Popovers * Seeded Turmeric & Leek Levain * Savory Kale Scones * Compound Butters * Buttermilk Biscuits * Nettle & Ale Bread * Lilac Sugar * Lilac Honey * Brooklyn Sourdough * Semolina Rose Cake * Parsley & Herb Donuts * Green Garlic Naan * Coconut & Lychee Cupcakes * Ploughman's Loaf * Elderflower Cordial

SUN WORSHIP: Gooseberry and Elderflower Trifle * Jalapeño Cheese Bread * Plum and Amaranth Muffins * Chocolate Cherry Pop Tarts * Apricot and Tarragon Scones * Le Pain du Soleil * Lilac-Infused Blueberry Cobbler * Tomato and Lebany Galette * Savory Fig Crostata * Chocolate Blackberry Sprouted Quinoa Cake * Blue Corn and Caramelized Onion Loaf * Tomato & Basil Mini Muffins * Solstice Pie with Buckwheat Crust * Herbed Parchment Crackers * Lahmacun * Saffron Buns * Savory Zucchini and Green Olive Loaf * Peach & Lavender Crumb Muffins * Fennel, Orange, and Almond Biscotti * Mulberry and Millet Buttermilk Pancakes * Geranium-Scented Cake * Corn & Zucchini Griddle Cakes with Sweet Chili Sauce * Raspberry Tequila Lime Tartlets * Scarlet Runner Bean Hummus

Biographical Note:
SARAH OWENS is the head steward of the internationally celebrated rose collection and gardens at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the founder of BK17 Bakery, an artisan microbakery in Brooklyn. BK17 specializes in baking with sourdough. Sarah's customers get fresh baked goods delivered through a subscription serving Brooklyn and Manhattan. She has been featured in Edible Manhattan, on Gardenista, and on 66 Square Feet and has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show.

Review Quotes:
"Sarah Owens is a legend in the sourdough community, and we all owe her a deep debt of gratitude for bringing this gorgeous book into our world. She demystifies sourdough in a way that makes everything seem easy and natural. Whether you're a seasoned pro or a sourdough newbie, you'll relish following the rhythms of the seasons with her as your guide. Trust her, she'll take your bakes to beautiful new places."
-- Josey Baker, founder of The Mill in San Francisco and author of Josey Baker Bread: Get Baking, Make Great Bread, Be Happy!

"Artist, gardener, and baker, Sarah writes beautifully--and with clarity--about the recipes and the craft of bread making, as she practices it. Sourdough is a gorgeous and inspiring book of uniquely delicious recipes for a new or seasoned baker. It is a call to bake by hand and with the senses, to consider the source and diversity of ingredients, and to think like an artist and a scientist in the kitchen. I'm delighted to see this new edition."
-- Alice Medrich, author of Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies and Gluten-Free Flavor Flours

"Sarah Owens's tenth anniversary edition of her award-winning classic, Sourdough, is welcome news for the baking community. The growing hunger for delicious, beautiful, and reliable sourdough recipes is well-met in this updated edition. Sarah's meticulous attention to detail and her discriminating palate for pure flavors will please everyone. Let her evoke and cultivate the baker within you with the same nurturing she brought to her legendary roses at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and her microbakery in Brooklyn. With this book, you will find yourself in very good hands and with a whole new repertoire of creative recipes using the full potential of the garden and mother earth."
-- Peter Reinhart, author of The Bread Baker's Apprentice and host of the Pizza Quest podcast

"I am thrilled that Sarah Owens book Sourdough is being revised for its tenth anniversary. Sarah's approach to baking is far broader than just the "how to" make delicious bread at home. Her connection to the land, ingredients, environment, and the heart that she weaves throughout her work connects the reader to new ways to appreciate the joy of baking. Lucky for us, her recipes are as diverse as they are delicious."
-- Daniel Leader, founder of Bread Alone Bakery and author of A Slow Rise: Favorite Recipes from Four Decades of Baking with Heart

"Sarah Owen's award-winning book, Sourdough, is as fresh, beautiful, and compelling as the day it was released. From basic tools and methods to inspired grain and flavor combinations--with sourdough at every turn--her book presents like a bouquet to the baker. Whether you're new to fermentation and growing your skills or an experienced baker looking to spark creativity, this timeless collection is the perfect tool."
-- Martin Philip, baker and author of Baking Bread: A Baker's Journey Home in 75 Recipes

"Sarah Owens's Sourdough, with its approachable recipes, gentle guidance, and stunning photography, remains a seminal work ten years on. Launching an interest in home bread making, sourdough, and fermentation has led to more passion and knowledge nationwide. This is an essential book if you are interested in slow food practices and a delicious life."
-- Rose Wilde, founder of Red Bread and author Bread and Roses: 100+ Grain Forward Recipes featuring Global Ingredients and Botanicals

" Sourdough is in a timeless class that was ahead of its time in terms of making breads from a more unusual palette of grains, flours, and foraged ingredients. Sarah goes beyond your typical European hearth breads and writes recipes that draw on world flavors and traditional wisdom and are full of imagination and heart. Despite the title, this book goes way beyond just sourdough and draws the home baker deeper into the world of fermentation and its limitless possibilities."
-- Emma Zimmerman, cofounder of Hayden Flour Mills and author of The Miller's Daughter: Unusual Flours and Heritage Grains: Stories and Recipes from Hayden Flour Mills

"If you've been mystified by sourdough, allow Sarah Owens to be your guide. She incorporates it into everything--from cookies and biscuits to cakes and, of course, glorious breads. You will want to eat every recipe in this stunningly photographed book."
-- Maria Speck, award-winning author of Simply Ancient Grains and Ancient Grains for Modern Meals

" Sourdough highlights the joy of working in season and the power of microbes in one of our most loved foods: bread. Sarah's tasty creations and intimate interactions with the natural world inspire us to trust the life forces that contribute to the health of our inner and outer ecosystems--leading to a more thoughtful experience with food."
-- Tara Whitsitt, founder of Fermentation on Wheels and author of Fermentation on Wheels: Road Stories, Food Ramblings, and 50 Do-It-Yourself Recipes from Sauerkraut, Kombucha, and Yogurt to Miso, Tempeh, and Mead

Publisher Marketing:
A James Beard Award Winner for Baking & Desserts

Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, Sourdough offers 101 luscious recipes using natural, made-from-scratch sourdough starter for more nutritious, tastier results--going well beyond bread into a wide range of other baked goods.

In Sarah Owens's pioneering Sourdough, she demystified using sourdough starter for maximum flavor and easy digestion, showing us just how simple it can be to create a healthy starter from scratch. Moreover, she showed how to use home-grown sourdough starter in dozens of baked goods, including cookies, cakes, scones, flatbreads, tarts, and more--well beyond bread. Ten years later, sourdough is more popular than ever. To celebrate, this refreshed anniversary edition includes an updated introduction and expanded resources section.

Sarah Owens spent years baking conventional baked goods, only to realize she had developed a crippling inability to digest or tolerate their ingredients. Unable to enjoy many of her favorite foods, she knew she must find a health-sustaining alternative. Sarah started experimenting with sourdough leavening, which almost immediately began to heal her gut and inspire her anew in the kitchen. Soon after, she launched an artisan small-batch bakery, and with that, a new way to savor and share nutritious sourdough breads and treats with her Brooklyn community. A botanist and gardener as well as a baker, Sarah accents her recipes with brief natural history notes on the highlighted plants and ingredients. Laced with botanical and cultural notes on grains, fruits and vegetables, herbs, and even weeds, Sourdough celebrates seasonal abundance alongside the timeless craft of artisan baking.


Review Citations:

  • Library Journal 08/01/2025 pg. 82 (EAN 9781645474173, Hardcover) - *Starred Review


Author: Owens, Sarah
Publisher: Shambhala
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: 2025-10-14
BISAC: Cooking|Courses & Dishes|Bread|Cooking|Methods|Baking|Cooking|Courses & Dishes|Desserts
Subjects: Cooking (Sourdough)|Sourdough bread|Baking|Seasonal cooking|Cookbooks
Weight: 2.6 lbs
ISBN: 9781645474173
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9781645474173

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