Recipe

Make a Poolish Mixture For Perfectly Easy Sourdough Bread

My secret weapon guarantees consistent success.

Patricia Davis
4 min readFeb 17, 2022

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My perfect sourdough loaf starts with a poolish mixture.
My perfect sourdough loaf starts with a poolish mixture. Photo by Patricia J. Davis.

Sourdough bread is hard to make, or so I thought after I made several failed loaves. I began my starter at the beginning of the pandemic so that I would have bread to feed my family. For some reason, I couldn’t recreate the loaves all the professionals…

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Patricia Davis

Pat blogs about food, sustainability, and living simply. Sourdough is a particular passion. She also writes historical fiction with social justice themes.