Dough
67 year old sourdough starter, fed every day with high quality flour.
Two day fridge & room temp ferment
At pizza wisdom we believe that pizza dough is the foundation of what makes a super tasty pizza. That's why we use a 67 year old sourdough starter (Masa Madre) for all of our pizzas base's. This provides a beautifully soft and slightly sour flavour which compliments not only your taste buds but is also favoured by your all-important gut bacteria. Unlike modern day conventional bread, sourdough contains a host of healthy bacteria. Although much of this is lost during the baking process, they help break down polyphenols (plant compounds) while fermenting which, helps the dough become more biologically available for your gut bacteria. The sourdough process also helps breakdown proteins such as gluten making the bread easier to digest and therefore holding a lower gluten content in comparison to some other breads.We personally believe when things are good for you, they taste good too! So yes.. we take our sourdough balls to the next level with a DOUBLE FERMENTATION PROOVE! Improoooving the taste and health of each dough ball. This means we do a bulk ferment at room temperature after forming the dough, after that we ball it up, we do another ferment in the fridge for almost two days, giving the dough it's unique flavour and extra fluffiness. Once finally baked you'll receive a light and airy wood-fired base which is both soft and crunchy at the same time!
Wisdom anyone...?
DID YOU KNOW.. sourdough is the oldest form of leavened bread. Although its unclear when people started using sourdough, examples date back to 1500BC with the ancient Egyptians. Even more amazingly scientists have extracted sourdough starter from ancient Egyptian clay pots to make leavened bread containing 4500 year old yeast cultures!
gluten structure of our purple sourdough
We like to call our sourdough starter the Masa Madre which means the great mother in Spanish. This is due to the tradition where the mother of a bride will pass down their own sourdough starter in order for the bride to continue the process and therefor feed her family.
We have adored learning new ways to use our Masa Madre, one of our favourites ... focaccia! We just love how easy and versatile it is!
Using our sour dough discard for yummy treats!
If you have your owned a Masa Mardre you'll know it's like owning a real life Tamagotchi! It needs feeding every day, by this we mean, we add more flour and water to the mix at around the same time every day, in tern leaving you with a lot of discard as we also need to pour half of it away each day too! At pizza Wisdom we try to have have as little waste as possible in all our practices, so it's got us thinking creatively! We now make flat breads, crumpets, pancakes, scones and a recipe we are currently working on... Welsh cakes! Recipes for all coming soon!
Recipe coming soon
Recipe coming soon
Recipe coming soon
Recipe coming soon