Backfill · 2025
#180 of 383Farmers Market Sourdough
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Personal photo: round sourdough loaf with a dark crackled crust on a wooden cutting board at an outdoor market table, with other baked goods and a handwritten price sign visible.
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A sourdough loaf I buy every Saturday from the farmers market on the town green is baked by a woman who keeps her starter in a ceramic crock on her counter and has been feeding it since 2008. Dark, almost burnt in places, the crust gives way to a crumb with those large irregular holes that signal slow fermentation and a wet dough. I like that she only makes 40 loaves per week and sells out by 10 AM. The scarcity isn't manufactured, it's just the limit of what 1 person with 1 oven can produce.