Even if you love homebaked bread, you only sometimes have the schedule to make and bake a loaf, especially when it comes to sourdough. The solution is parbaked bread. You bake the bread until it’s almost finished, then freeze it. You can then take it out when you need it and finish baking. I’ll explain parbaking bread and give a recipe for a sourdough bread you can par-bake. The technique can be used for any bread, though.
Parbaking refers to baking the bread partially. Parbaking is quite an underutilized technique, but I will detail how you can make frozen bread come out freshly baked every time. You cannot tell the difference between the parbaked bread and one you’ve baked in one session.
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