The Essential Guide to Bread and Sourdough Mastery — Recipes & Techniques

A broad guide to bread and sourdough for home bakers, running from the history of bread through the role each ingredient plays to the business of creating and keeping a starter.

• The craft: flour, water, salt and yeast, and what each one actually does
• Creating, maintaining and troubleshooting a sourdough starter
• Hydration, shaping and scoring techniques
• Recipes for home bakers at any level
• Paperback, 150 pages

A good general introduction if you want context as well as method — lighter on technical depth than Bread Science, broader in scope.