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The sourdough framework is an open-source book dedicated tohelping you to make the best possible sourdough bread at home.

Rather than providing recipes this book intends to provide aframework that enables you to bake bread in your respectiveenvironment. Every flour, every sourdough, and every home setupis different. This makes following recipes without backgroundinformation so hard and a fail-prone endeavor. This bookintends to close that gap.

4 years after launching the repositoriesthe-bread-codeandpizza-dough Icreated this project to merge the knowledge together. Thisproject intends to go one step deeper into the workings ofnatural fermentation. At the same time as many scientific referencesas possible are provided.

make

Then you can check out the filebook/book.pdf

If you want to 🍞 bake all the versions including ebook variants (.pdf, .epubin colour and size optimized Black&White), run:

make bake

You can check the files in the folderbook/release/

Make sure you havebiber,latexmk andImageMagick installed. Refer toyour system's installation instructions for LaTeX. To create the serif .pdfformat, run:

cd book/make

If you want to 🍞 bake all the versions including ebook variants (.pdf, .epubin colour and size optimized Black&White, as well as website), run:

cd book/make -j bake

You can check the files in the folderbook/release/

Please note that while everything should build without any errors but you will get a fair amount of warnings, especially when building the ebook/website.

You can get some help on building various versions with:

cd book/make help

The below versions are automatically built on every push to themain branch.

• Download compiled .pdf version
• Download compiled .epub version

There's an additional enhanced accessibility version using a sans-serif font:

• Download compiled sans-serif .pdf version

An additional black and white ebook is provided with a greatly reduced filesize. This shrinks the book from more than 20MB down to ~5MB:

• Download compiled B&W .epub version

For those who prefer a concise reference (about 15 pages), we offer a "too long;didn't read" (TL;DR)version. This condensed guide contains the essential flowcharts, crucial information,and space for your notes - perfect for quick kitchen reference.It provides the key information you need without reading the complete book.

• Read TL;DR version on your device
• Download TL;DR version for printing

We recommend using double-sided printing if your printer supports it.

Head over tohttps://www.the-sourdough-framework.com

To build the website make sure to have the ruby version installed specified inwebsite/.ruby-version.

cd book/make website

Alternatively you can build the website directly with Docker:

make website

There is a hardcover version of the book available for purchase.You canread more details here.

Did you find a typo, or feel the wording could be improved?Feel free to open up a pull request at any time.

I believe that the knowledge this book provides is essential to everyone.That's why I decided to open source my knowledge hopingthat it will reach more people all over the world withoutbudget constraints.

If you would like to contribute with a small donation you can do sovia myko-fi page. Your donation will tremendouslyhelp me to cover costs related to running the-bread-code. It furthermore allowsme to dedicate time to continuously update and improve this book.

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