The Hopeful Crumb

The Hopeful Crumb Home based bakery serving sourdough goods to locals in the Athens, TN area.

When you forget to score your sourdough 🤦‍♀️ It was still fluffy and tasty!
04/17/2025

When you forget to score your sourdough 🤦‍♀️ It was still fluffy and tasty!

Life in March 🥰
03/30/2025

Life in March 🥰

Juls is loving her new heating pad.I bought a heating pad for seedlings but decided to use it for my starter. Glad I did...
02/25/2025

Juls is loving her new heating pad.

I bought a heating pad for seedlings but decided to use it for my starter. Glad I did!!

It rose within just a few hours! Ready for baking a few loaves tomorrow!!

Before & afterA great rise takes time, literally. These cinnamon rolls proofed on the counter overnight. I always heat m...
02/05/2025

Before & after

A great rise takes time, literally. These cinnamon rolls proofed on the counter overnight.

I always heat my milk to at minimum 90° and add softened butter one tbsp at a time during the mixing portion.

I am excited to share the knowledge I've learned over the past year with a friend this morning. The cinnamon rolls will go fabulous with coffee 😍

For my sourdough bakers out there...Do yourselves a favor and switch out water in your recipe for whey 😍😍😍😍Wow!! I was e...
01/31/2025

For my sourdough bakers out there...

Do yourselves a favor and switch out water in your recipe for whey 😍😍😍😍

Wow!! I was expecting a complete flop on this loaf. I used fresh milled flour and the leftover whey from the mozzarella I made last week!! SO springy!!!

**recipe from Little Pearl Breads & Bakes**

84g active starter
306g water (whey in my case)
340g bread flour
60g milled flour (or whole wheat)
6g salt

The Hopeful Crumb is still alive and well!!The starter has been creating some beautiful loaves and I am excited to sprea...
12/14/2024

The Hopeful Crumb is still alive and well!!

The starter has been creating some beautiful loaves and I am excited to spread cheer with deliveries!!

I hope everyone has a safe Christmas and are blessed this season!! 🎄✨️🎁

Remember when you were a kid and would make mud pies in the yard?? Stir it all with a stick for that perfect squish text...
12/14/2024

Remember when you were a kid and would make mud pies in the yard?? Stir it all with a stick for that perfect squish texture??

That's sourdough for adults...

12/09/2024

My best friend is doing awesome things in GA!!

Working on something new 😉 To be continued...
11/22/2024

Working on something new 😉

To be continued...

Absolutely gorgeous loaves today!!Sourdough is such a labor of love. This took over 48 hours. I took my starter out of t...
11/03/2024

Absolutely gorgeous loaves today!!

Sourdough is such a labor of love.

This took over 48 hours. I took my starter out of the refrigerator, fed it a 1:2:2 ratio, discarded back into my discard jar, refed another 1:2:2 ratio and by the next morning it was beautifully bubbly!

I then mixed my dough at 6am and did stretch and folds for 3.5 hours. I let it finish bulk fermenting until 2:30pm and then pre-shaped, bench rest, then final shaped before putting into the fridge.

Preheated the oven with Dutch ovens at 450, baked 6 mins, scored, another 15 mins lid on. Took lid off for the last 15 mins still at 450 and now to cool for an hour at 6:05pm.

I don't have industrial sized equipment to do big batches, the most I can get done in a day is a maximum of 5 to 6 loaves so doing mass orders has proven to be complicated.

I have people asking if I am still taking orders. I am, but limited. I don't advertise as much and just bake when I am asked.

I love this!! But I am not a restaurant or have a team to help so I backed off for now. I am thrilled that I recently got a double oven and can now do a variety of bakes at once so that will help tremendously!!

Just wanted to update you all 🥰 Enjoy the evening friends!!

First batch of test pretzels!! The kids are super excited about it 😋
09/27/2024

First batch of test pretzels!! The kids are super excited about it 😋

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