Chronicle Books | The Baker's Percentage

Forget following a bread recipe step by step — The Baker’s Percentage teaches you how to truly understand sourdough and bake with confidence.

At the heart of the book is the baker’s percentage, a simple formula used by professional bread bakers to adjust ingredients, scale from one loaf to many and adapt fermentation to suit their own schedule. Once understood, it opens up a wonderfully flexible approach to bread making.

Rather than providing traditional recipes, author Mara Rapini explores the process behind great bread, helping home bakers understand how dough behaves and how to make decisions along the way. From a classic white sourdough to a 100% whole wheat loaf, the emphasis is on learning to feel, adapt and understand the process rather than simply following instructions.

Chapters explore flour, starters and leaven, mixing and kneading, bulk fermentation, dividing, shaping, proofing and baking, creating a comprehensive guide for anyone wanting to take their bread making further.

Interwoven with Mara’s bread-making knowledge are stories from her cooking school, Village Dreaming & Farm ORTO, making this as enjoyable to sit down and read as it is useful in the kitchen.

A fabulous gift for the sourdough enthusiast, passionate home baker or anyone ready to understand the craft behind their loaf.

Details:
• Written by Mara Rapini
• A comprehensive guide to the baker’s percentage
• Learn to adapt bread making to your own schedule
• Covers sourdough from starter through to baking
• Encourages intuitive, confident bread making
• 224 pages
• Size: 260 x 205mm