You all know my love of sewing And you also know that I enjoy photography and reading and you ve seen that I bake occasionally. Well before Christmas I was having a discussion about making bread and in particular sourdough with one of the lovely girls from work and her lovely husband sent me in a sour dough starter, if anyone has dabbled in sourdough baking they know that getting a good sourdough starter takes a bit to create. So I was pretty thrilled. Instantly I was hooked and So in the month leading up to Christmas I had quite a few attempts at making a loaf of sourdough, unfortunately all of them fairly unsuccessful Each of them tasted good, just like the real thing but unfortunately just did nt rise very well, despite all my efforts. So Gadget knowing that once I had the bread obsession happening i would nt stop until I had a success decided to give me a helping hand and gave me The River Cottage bread handbook for Christmas . So I spent many ho