Bel | Sourdough, Bread Art & Italian Home Cooking

If you caught my recent story, you would have seen a beautiful gift sent all the way from Canada by Lou @wildbluebellhomestead 💙🤎

Connecting with creative souls all over the world has truly been one of the blessings of learning to make sourdough and sharing my creations along the way. Lou creates handmade pieces like bowl covers, shares her love of sourdough and even sends out a monthly mail subscription with sourdough recipes and little pieces of homestead life.

Thank you, Lou, for this treasured gift from your hands to mine. 💙🤎

🦋 I like to name my loaves and this one is called ‘Primavera’ (Spring in Italian). I chose the name because Spring represents new beginnings, growth and renewal.
It felt like the perfect name for this loaf.

It carries techniques I’ve learnt on my ‘sourdough journey’, like using stencils and applying a 7-minute score for the big slashes, which I adapted from @sourly original 5-minute score.

And I sometimes decorate the bottom of my loaves too, a lovely design idea I learnt from @breadonbluetiles and @diddewerf a little while back.

🐝 Did you spot Lou’s stencil bee buzzing on the bottom?

➡️ For those interested, I’ve linked a tutorial with step-by-step instructions for decorating the bottom and top of the loaf. I’ve also tried adding some instructions over this video. Let me know if it’s helpful.

🦋 You can find the dough specs for ‘Primavera’ in the comments.

🗡️Scored with my Poco bread lame from @wiremonkeyshop

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