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Bread Baking for Beginners: Log Book for Sourdough, Starter, Hydration, Fermentation, Proofing, Crumb & Homemade Bread with Funny Baking Quotes
Paperback
Publisher Price: $9.99
ISBN13: 9783384985378
Publisher: Infinityou
Published: Aug 12 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Learning to bake great bread takes flour, water, patience-and plenty of experimentation.
One loaf rises beautifully. Another behaves completely differently. Change the hydration, starter, temperature, fermentation time or proofing, and suddenly you have an entirely different loaf.
Bread Baking for Beginners gives home bakers a dedicated place to record those variables so every bake becomes an opportunity to learn.
Each detailed Baking Log lets you record your recipe, hydration percentage, oven temperature and bake time together with starter information, dough and ambient temperature, and final loaf shape. Record ingredient weights and follow your bread through autolyse, bulk fermentation, shaping, proofing and baking, noting the start and end of every stage.
Once your bread comes out of the oven, record observations about the crumb, crust and oven spring. There's even dedicated space to add a photo or sketch of the crumb structure.
Rate both crumb and taste using the five-star trackers, then write down exactly what you want to tweak next time-and what worked well enough to repeat.
But bread baking should also be fun.
The journal includes funny bread-baking reflections about starters, kneading, rustic loaves, beginner-baker mishaps and the emotional roller coaster of waiting for dough to rise. These pages provide space to record your date and mood, what the thought means to you, your own experiences, how you'll act on it, a word to carry forward and someone you'd like to share it with.
Inside You'll Find- Bread baking log pages
- Recipe tracking
- Hydration percentage tracking
- Oven temperature records
- Bake-time tracking
- Sourdough starter notes
- Starter last-fed records
- Dough temperature tracking
- Ambient temperature tracking
- Final loaf shape
- Boule and batard notes
- Ingredient and weight records
- Autolyse tracking
- Bulk fermentation tracking
- Shaping records
- Proofing records
- Complete baking timeline
- Stage start and end times
- Crumb observations
- Crust observations
- Oven-spring notes
- Photo or crumb-sketch space
- Five-star crumb rating
- Five-star taste rating
- Tweak Next Time notes
- What to Repeat notes
- Funny bread baking quotes
- Guided journaling pages with funny and uplifting prompts
- Beginner bread bakers
- Sourdough beginners
- Home bread bakers
- Artisan bread enthusiasts
- Sourdough enthusiasts
- People learning fermentation
- New sourdough starter owners
- Boule and batard bakers
- Home baking enthusiasts
- Bread-making hobbyists
- Bakers experimenting with hydration
- Anyone improving their bread recipes
- Gifts for bread bakers
- Gifts for sourdough lovers
- Gifts for home bakers
- Baking gifts for women
- Baking gifts for men
- Birthday gifts for bakers
- Christmas gifts for bakers
- Housewarming gifts
- Bread lover gifts
Whether you're feeding your first sourdough starter or trying to understand why one loaf produced the perfect open crumb while another didn't, Bread Baking for Beginners helps turn trial and error into a useful record of your progress.
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