Sourdough Pizza Dough Recipe: Chewy, Crisp Crust
A reliable sourdough pizza dough recipe with ingredient weights, a flexible fermentation schedule, and home-oven baking methods. Makes three 12-inch pizzas.
Sourdough Waffle Recipe (Straight From the Discard Jar)
Every other recipe on this site asks you to feed your starter and wait for it to peak before doing anything else. This one doesn’t. It’s built around the jar of unfed discard already sitting in your fridge — the stuff you’d otherwise scrape off the top before feeding — and it’s genuinely one of…
Sourdough Cinnamon Roll Recipe (Tangzhong Method, Overnight Rise)
Sourdough cinnamon rolls have a real problem that plain sourdough bread doesn’t: an enriched, sweet dough leavened with wild yeast alone tends to bake up denser and drier than one made with commercial yeast, because sourdough’s natural acidity actually weakens gluten development in a butter-and-sugar-heavy dough over a long fermentation. Nearly every well-tested version of…
Sourdough Bagel Recipe — Boiled, Chewy, Overnight Method
Every other bread on this site is a wet, hands-off, no-knead dough. Bagels are the opposite on every count — a stiff, low-hydration dough that actually needs real kneading, shaped by hand, boiled in a pot before it ever sees the oven. If the rustic loaf or focaccia taught you to trust a slack, jiggly…
Sourdough English Muffin Recipe (Griddle-Baked, No Oven Needed)
Every other bread on this site goes in an oven. This one mostly doesn’t — English muffins cook on a griddle or skillet, flipped like pancakes, which makes this one of the few sourdough recipes that works even if your oven’s out of commission. It’s the same stovetop logic as the sourdough bread without an…
Sourdough Focaccia Recipe — Classic, Discard, and Same-Day Methods
Focaccia and a sandwich loaf come from the same starter but couldn’t behave more differently. Where sandwich bread wants a tight, enriched dough shaped into a pan, focaccia wants the opposite: high hydration, minimal shaping, and a generous hand with olive oil. The wetter the dough, the more open and airy the crumb — which…
Sourdough Sandwich Bread Recipe (Soft Loaf, No Dutch Oven Needed)
Most sourdough recipes are built for an open, irregular crumb — dramatic to photograph, difficult to build a sandwich on. Big holes mean fillings fall through, and a crust thick enough to crackle is a crust thick enough to shred the roof of your mouth on a PB&J. This recipe trades some of that rustic…
How to Make Sourdough Bread at Home (Complete Beginner’s Guide)
Your first loaf is a coin flip. Follow the same steps twice and you can end up with two different results — one loaf tall and open, the next squat and tight. That’s not a flaw in the method. It’s what happens when the main ingredient is a living culture that behaves differently depending on…
How to Make Sourdough Starter from Scratch (Day by Day Guide)
Most people never get past this step. For renters starting a small-space food project, our apartment homesteading guide explains how sourdough fits alongside herbs, composting, and other beginner skills.Learning how to make sourdough starter looks intimidating from the outside, so it stops beginners before they’ve even mixed a bowl. It shouldn’t. If you’re wondering how…
