Learning to bake with wholegrains can be intimidating! Start with Focaccia-a simple and forgiving, but deeply delicious bread!


Wholegrain baking can be intimidating, but it just takes a bit of support and knowledge to get it right! 

Focaccia is an amazing place to start, as it is so forgiving yet soooo delicious! 

With guidance and support and straightforward instruction, baking nutritious and satisfying focaccia can become a reality!

Sourdough Simplified Online is a four week course that teaches you everything you need to know about baking sourdough bread!

Sourdough bread baking is a complex yet simple process that I break down for you in 

simple to watch and follow video clips  

that you get to keep forever!

Four modules with short video clips covering every step of the way:


Module 1: Introduction

1.1 Intro and Welcome

1.2 What is sourdough?

1.3 Choosing your ingredients

1.4 Tools of the Trade

Module 2: Your Sourdough Starter

2.1 What your starter does

2.2 Rehydrating your dried starter

2.3 Taking care of your starter

2.4 Getting to know your starter

Module 3: Mixing to Shaping

3.1 Preparing your Starter and Levain for baking

3.2 Mixing your dough

3.3 Autolyse & adding salt

3.4 Bulk Fermentation & Stretch and Folds

3.5 Shaping & Bench Rest

Module 4: Proofing to Baking

4.1 Proofing & Choosing Retarding vs. Ambient Baking

4.2 Scoring and Baking Your Bread

4.3 Eating and storing your bread!

Extra Support!

  • Dehydrated Sourdough Starter

    With your registration, I will ship you a packet of my very own sourdough starter (that I started over ten years ago). You will learn how to rehydrate it in the course. This starter is the foundation of sourdough bread baking and it will JUMPSTART your progress because you won't need to take 2 weeks to start your own. In 3-4 days you will be ready to start baking! If you made your own starter in my Facebook Group: Start Your Own Sourdough Starter Challenge then you won't need the dehydrated starter. You can get ready right away!

Introducing Your Instructor!

Hey! I'm Heather. I run Heather's Hearth an on-farm/online sourdough school and wood-fired home bakery. I've been baking sourdough bread for over ten years-it all started while I was working at a back country lodge in British Columbia, Canada where I was working as a cook. After that first experience learning sourdough I was hooked! It took me lots of experimenting to get to where I am now. My passion is to pass sourdough bread baking skills on to other home bakers and shorten the amount of time it takes you to bake your dream loaf!

Heather MacMillan

Sourdough Instructor

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Welcome to Sourdough Simplified!

Kind Words

“I have only made bread before using a bread machine so I was really suprised at how compelling it was to dig my hands into the dough and feel the connection to the life and tension that was contained within the moist mass of fresh dough. Heather's videos were simple to follow and full of good information besides being very well filmed. I liked the written charts that followed so you could quickly find the information you needed in the summaries. And voila, the finished bread looked beautiful and tasted delicious. I was very proud!!”

Sourdough Simplified Graduate

Joan P.

“I really enjoyed taking Sourdough Simplified on-line. Even though I am a novice baker, Heather's instructions and on-line videos were easy to follow and I was really pleased with how my bread turned out (so was my family). The sourdough pizza recipe was a similar hit! I appreciated being able to watch the videos as many times as I needed in order to get the folding techniques down. I highly recommend this course!”

Sourdough Simplified Graduate

Heather O.

FAQ

  • Do I get to keep the videos after the course is over?

    Yes! You will have access to the course forever.

  • How long is the course?

    This is

  • Is this course for a beginner baker?

    Yes! This course is for someone who has never baked any bread before, for someone who has baked yeasted bread but not sourdough and even for someone who has tried sourdough bread out before with less success than desired. This is not an intermediate course.

  • What kind of bread are we making? Will we learn other techniques like baguettes?

    You will learn to bake a classic sourdough, focaccia and pizza dough. This course focuses first and foremost on what I believe to be the basics and foundation of sourdough. Learning the basics is essential before moving on to other more difficult breads. Focaccia and pizza dough are a great addition once you have your sourdough loaf down!

  • Do I have to make my own sourdough starter?

    No! You will be receiving a dehydrated sourdough starter in the mail directly from me. You will learn how to get it going in the course.

  • Will we learn how to bake whole grain sourdough bread?

    Not exactly. This course is focused on a classic white sourdough. I do have instructions in the course on how to start adding small amounts of whole grain flour into your bread as you become more comfortable with the process. Don't worry-whole grains are one of my passions-there will be a whole grain course in the future! I highly recommend you learn the basics in Sourdough Simplified before getting into whole grains. The skill level of whole grain baking is much higher than white sourdough.

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