The Baker's Percentage: The simple formula for making perfect sourdough bread at home
Mara Ripani
The Baker’s Percentage is a simple formula that empowers you to adjust your bread-making recipes and processes like a professional - no matter what type of bread you are baking. With the Baker's Percentage, you can easily scale up or down, from one to many, confidently experiment with different types of flour and choose to speed up or slow down fermentation according to your daily commitments. It is a completely liberating, yet most home bakers have never heard of it.
This book introduces the Baker's Percentage and teaches you how to incorporate it into your routine for everyday bread-baking success. The book also examines in depth the core steps of sourdough bread making, from making and caring for a leaven,, to kneading, bulk fermentation, shaping loaves, baking and more.
With recipes demonstrating the Baker's Percentage in action to start you on your bread-baking journey, and case studies illustrating how people incorporate the Baker's Percentage into their daily lives, whether you're an absolute beginner or an experienced sourdough maker looking for more freedom in your process, this book will change the way you bake bread forever.
Mara Ripani is an Italian–Australian bread-baking expert and photographer who runs masterclasses on how to bake wild yeast sourdough bread from her farm in country Victoria, Australia. At her 15-acre farm near Daylesford, Mara has built multiple kitchens, a large vegetable garden and various orchards in order to share and help educate people about the importance of slowing down, growing food and living with nature.