Pasadena Housewife

Check out those blisters on the crust of my last batch of sourdough bread.

I baked it inside a cloche:

Here’s the bread inside:

It was delicious.

My mother-in-law, Andrea, has been baking sourdough bread for years. A few years ago, while out on a visit, she taught me how to make it. She turned me on to Nancy Silverton’s Breads of the La Brea Bakery cookbook, and the cloche is from her and Ed. Thank you both!