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Updates and Changes Log

I'm going to try to track changes to this web site here for people who want to know what's changed lately. Please let me know if you think this is useful. Just send me an email through the contact us page.

Date of Change Web Page Changed A Description of the Change
Saturday, September 05, 2009 Every page. Yeah, EVERY page. In working with another site I realized this site was not in compliance with w3c standards. Now it is. No content changes, and LOTS of work that will make the migration easier.
Sunday, May 17, 2009 All Changed logo/banner, color scheme. Fixed errors in flour test links
Monday, April 27, 2009 bakingintro1 Added honey and ribbon cane syrup to list of sweeteners, commented that some find molasses a bit too heavy.
Sunday, April 12, 2009 Why won't my dough rise? A new page focused on a common problem
Sunday, April 12, 2009 Yeasted English Muffin Bread (Introduction to Baking, Part 2) Updated the rule of 240 to include doughs with sourdough or other preferments
Monday, February 23, 2009 Mike's Bread Blog Mike mentions the philosophy page has changed
Monday, February 23, 2009 Mike's Food Philosophy Mike takes unbrage at someone's comment that the problem with food in America is that Americans confuse food with entertainment.
Sunday, November 30, 2008 100 Percent Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread Changed measurements to include weight, touched up instructions.
Saturday, October 11, 2008 Starter, My Way Expanded discussion of temperature while starting a starter, and using ovens to elevate the temperature.
Sunday, October 05, 2008 All pages Moved to a CSS driven layout, using tables for recipes only
Sunday, August 10, 2008 The Art of the Rise (More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Rising Dough) A new page that talks about rising dough
Saturday, July 19, 2008 Starting a Starter Tightened up page to eliminate what a whining correspondent felt was a whiny tone
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Carrot Pineapple Sourdough Cupcakes Posted a long loved and long awaited recipe.
Monday, April 14, 2008 Know Your Ingredients and Terms Changed page from "Know Your Ingredients" to "Know Your Ingredients And Terms" added discussions of elasticity, extensibility and water.
Thursday, April 10, 2008 Retarding Dough For Flavor Enhancement and Process Control Created page
Thursday, April 10, 2008 Factors affecting rise time. Extended discussion of slow rises
Monday, February 25, 2008 Introduction To Baking, Part 2 Added information about "The Rule of 240" a handy rule of thumb regarding dough temperatures and how to get them right.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Introduction to Peelology Or Getting Dough Into the Oven Safely Moved the movies to Google Videos and embedded them in the web page for ease of viewing
Friday, January 25, 2008 Sourdough Myths, Starting A Starter, Starter My Way, Desem Starter and Professor Calvel's Starter. A discussion of water needs in sourdough starter was added to these pages, as well as pointers to them from many pages that refer to water.
Thursday, January 24, 2008 Can I Make Sourdough Bread In My Bread Machine? An overdue discussion of sourdough in bread machines
January 8, 2008 New Bohemian Rye (Edie's Bread) Updated to use Detmolder 3-stage process, incorporated into menus
January 6, 2008 All Pages Redo of formatting, color scheme, layout
December 7, 2007 Basic Yeasted White Bread Reduced the yeast in the bread to a more reasonable level. It worked well before, but there was too much salt in it.
December 1, 2007 New Bohemian Rye (Edie's Bread) Created page
December 1. 2007 Tips and Techniques Added Rye Types
December 1. 2007 Rye Types Created Page
November 28, 2007 Sourdough Resources Removed dead links, added a few new links
November 24, 2007 Mike's Bread Shoppe Total re-do of format, moved details on cookbooks to other pages, re-added old merchandise, added new merchandise
November 24, 2007 About The Intro To Sourdough Cookbook Added page to reduce clutter in bread shoppe page
November 24, 2007 About the Back To Bagels Cookbook Added page to reduce clutter in bread shoppe page
November 24, 2007 About the advanced baking techniques - preferments cookbook Added page to reduce clutter on bread shoppe page
November 24, 2007 Caring for your starter Corrected awful typos
November 12, 2007 Ciabatta Removed erroneous references to Biga. Biga is a yeast based technique, I am just using a thick sourdough starter. I also changed the recipe to also show weights of ingredients.
November 4, 2007 Ciabatta recipe Corrected minor typo
November 4, 2007 Croissant Madness! Started logging the croissant experience!
November 2, 2007 Updates and Changes Created page to track changes to pages at Sourdoughhome
November 2, 2007 Starting a Starter Made links to the actual starter methods more obvious after several people couldn't find them.
November 2, 2007 Mike's Way To Start A Starter Stated a growing preference for whole wheat over whole rye to start a starter.

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