Modern Sourdough By Michelle Eshkeri

Michelle Eshkeri's book Modern Sourdough gives a perfect balance with easy home-style recipes and more invitingly complex challenges, just what every budding baker is looking for.
Recipes are well thought out, clear and easy to follow, and will get you on the road to sourdough brilliance in no time. Michelle Eshkeri reveals how mastering the art of sourdough baking can open up a world of sweet and savoury treats at home.

Michelle opened Margot Bakery in a dilapidated shop in East Finchley, London in 2016. An instant hit, it became an experiment in pushing the boundaries of what a local bakery could be, by specialising in sourdough leavened pastries and sweet doughs alongside more traditional breads.
Bringing together over 100 mouth-watering recipes inspired by Michelle's heritage, Modern Sourdough expands our understanding of this ancient baking technique. Featuring a step-by-step guide to making a sourdough starter, as well as methods for folding, shaping, scoring and baking, it demonstrates how you too can make Margot signature loaves, as well as naturally-leavened pizzas, challah, focaccia, French pastries, brioche and babka.

Covering bread, cakes, buns, savoury bakes and store cupboard wonders, plus a selection of non-sourdough favourites from the bakery, these are recipes you'll want to make again and again.

About the Author:
A self-taught baker, Michelle began making bread at home for her family in North London before deciding to turn it into a business of her own. She opened the doors to Margot Bakery in East Finchley in February 2016 and has been feeding the local community delicious sourdough bread and pastries every day since.
Michelle went on to publish her first cookbook Modern Sourdough just a few years later in 2019. It features recipes not only for her trademark loaves of the good stuff, but it also takes us through sourdough pastry and other innovative ways to use a sourdough starter (think sourdough cheese scones).