Big Batch Cooking | Step-by-step SIMPLE Sourdough | Scallop Potatoes | Cinnamon Buns

Hi friends, in today's video I hope to show you that sourdough doesn't need to be complicated. I have found a way to make it simple and delicious and I've shown you how I do it step-by-step. While I was making sourdough I got a craving for scallop potatoes, which I hadn't made in ages and a big 'ole batch of cinnamon buns. I hope you enjoy your time with me in the kitchen today.
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Sourdough bread, cinnamon buns and scalloped potatoes, oh my!!

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This was so much fun watching you. I’m 83, raised 4 kids and worked a job. Loved cooking, housework ect. For a short period we had animals. Love your lifestyle. Wishing you the best.

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Love hearing your kids in the background, just a normal household. Thanks for the cinnamon buns, I was just talking about them at work this week. Now I really have to make some.

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Welcome!!

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Glad to see you got the onion goggles! They look great on you!!

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I having been using the onions, garlic skins even celery ends to boil down to make broth. Good favor and freezes well.

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I have been making bread since the 1970’s…. To me every batch is a science experiment! Love baking all types of bread!

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I wish you wore a Fitbit so we could so how many steps in a day. I wish I had a tenth of your energy. You deserve a long nap after lunch. Your bread was beautiful. You make everything look so easy and I learn something new with every video.

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Lol!! I’ve often wondered that myself.

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You need to get a Fitbit and just see how many steps you walk in a day😜I bet it’s over 10,000!!!!! The food and breads looked amazing. Can’t wait til next one ❤️

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As much as what you do you deserve a nap every day. I also have one if I get up early or am busy on the homestead. I just turned 70.

[@InForTheFood]

Hi Chelsea, your channel is one of my favorites, I am always excited when I see a new video is out and I never skip parts of your videos, because you make us feel as if we are there with you. And it is all because you are such a pleasant way of talking with us, you feel like a friend. Anyway, the other day I saw on another channel someone saying that she sticks her onion in the freezer for 15 min before chopping, so that she does not cry during cutting it. I did not try it, I am lucky not crying too much with the onions, so I would not be able to tell you if it works. But maybe you give it a go, it cannot harm. And regarding the sourdough, I usually have better luck in summer, because my house is chilly in the winter, so my sourdough is not so active. It still works, but my summer loaves are much more impressive than my winter ones. I sometimes add a tiny pinch of dry yeast in the dough, just to have a little boost. Greetings from Germany, Andra.

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The bread! The cinnamon buns! OMG ! They look amazing!❤from Ontario

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I love the sounds of your family gathering around the dinner table. That's one of the things I miss most of being an empty nester. Thanks for sharing your kitchen and family with us.

[@shawndavis824]

We had scalloped potatoes and ham for supper last night. I had baked a large ham a few weeks ago. I put the leftover in the freeze. I pulled some out, cut it into chunks and mixed it in with the potatoes and baked them that way. It was delicious. There was none left over. ( It was a full 9x13 pan ) Where I am from if you have cheese in/on your scalloped potatoes we call them au gratin potatoes.

[@lindas.8036]

I absolutely love sourdough bread, and I think you may have encouraged me to get back into making my own! Thank you. Also, you may know this, but for your subscribers who may not, when making white sauce, the standard ratios for butter/flour/milk are: 1T/1T/1C for thin, 2T/2T/1C for medium, and 3T/3T/1C for thick. Also, if anyone has trouble

[@lindas.8036]

. . . oops! If anyone has trouble with their white sauce curdling when they use raw onions, make sure to mix in at least flour when adding it to the onions/potatoes. White sauce made like above will not curdle, but if you just pour milk over potatoes sprinkled with flour and butter, it probably will curdle. it has to do with the proteins unwrapping and clumping when it hits onions! Flour mixed in prevents that. Thanks again for all the fun!

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I always told my kids the formula of 1T each of flour and butter and for each T of those, it’s 1/2 c milk.

[@rebeccahuber7824]

I have found using a stainless steel bowl does not affect the rise or the end result. Metal bowls also take on the temperature of their surroundings. So perhaps if your house is on the cooler side, the metal bowl would in turn be colder. Which definitely would affect the rise. 🤷‍♀️ But glass is prettier. 😄

[@juliaboster829]

I need to watch this video of how you do your sour dough bread again. You are amazing at how you cook and bake. Thank you for sharing 😊

[@cathydavis9259]

My family has been blessed to have had a sourdough starter that has been handed down from my great great granfather who lived in the mid to late1800's. He would be in the Utah Rocky Mountains tending sheep during the summer. He would make this bread for he and his boys during the lambing season. Every time I use sourdough, I think of how beautiful and peaceful the mountain would have been.

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After watching that, went in the kitchen and made cinnamon rolls 🤣 The boys were very happy! 😋

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Good morning!

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@Little Mountain Ranch I don't see it.... Am I missing the ham brine recipe? Quite possible with these old eyes of mine. I really enjoyed this episode, thank you for sharing your way of life!

[@ariainman6691]

Your Sourdough Bread....fantastic and you make it easy. Thank you for sharing.

[@billthompson4197]

Those potatoes look awesome! I'm going to have to try that! Where I come from in PA (so, a lot of German and Dutch influence) scalloped potatoes always have cheese layered in them, and I never saw anyone put garlic in them.

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My stomach doesn't like sourdough but it looked amazing. This was a really great cooking video Chelsea, I really enjoyed watching your day of cooking unfold. x

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Great cooking I really enjoyed your surprise visit of your husband. Maybe you can get him more to come on and some of the videos while you’re doing some of the cooking. He looks like he enjoys helping you with the cooking. Ask Dan to come in and help out.

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Good job! Too funny Dan! LOL.

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[@crystylmoon]

My mom made scalloped potatoes for my birthday every year but added chunked up ham in them before baking, great way to use up leftover ham!

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Thank you Chelsea

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Good morning from South Georgia. Also gluten "develops". Beautiful loaf, makes me want a slice of it. Yum!!

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I need to see if I can find my other Tupperware chopper, that's what I use to chop onions. You quarter the onion, put it in the chopper, pull the handle a few times and it's done. The more you pull the handle, the finer the onions are chopped. You can use the chopper for anything. Hopefully I can find the extra one I have and can get it sent out soon. I love watching your videos, you have given me a lot of ideas for meals

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Yum!!!

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Your voice instantly soothes me ….

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Awesome. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skill.

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I use my wooden motivater alot to. Cooking, threatening baby butts (10) lol. It works for everything. 😉

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All looks so yummy! 😍

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Everything looks amazing.

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I find the 4.5 qt (4.5 L) pyrex bowl (largest of the set) is perfect for my yeast bread. My recipe is 6 cups of flour. I've used that bowl for 1 1/2 recipe too! plenty of rise room. I'm a home baker and make upwards of 30 batches a week in the peak farmers market season. ~Jennifer

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Wow, you just cooked all day! Looks delicious. Cheers from Australia

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Delicious meal and the bread looks amazing. Thank you for sharing.

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Gosh, if I lived in your house and ate all that delicious food, would be huge. haha Love watching you in the kitchen and on your farm. So inspiring.

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Great video. I love the bread. So glad you shared. Ty Chelsea.

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Great video! Love your content!

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Everything you fix looks so good Loved seeing the little piggys Can't wait for the sheep

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So yummy❤❤

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Great video. Thankyou

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Just love your style of breadmaking.looking forward learning from you!

[@99zanne]

I found it interesting that u made ham, and scalloped potatoes. We make scalloped ham and potatoes - to use up ham we have not eaten! We layer it ham in between the potato/onion layers, and add white sauce just like u did with the potatoes. We have not put cheese on the top but I bet it’d be good with the ham, too! TFS.

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I really enjoyed this vlog.

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Wow! That was inspiring! Tnx for sharing!

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Really enjoyed this session. I throw an icecube into the Dutch oven to create a bit of steam when I do my sourdough. Please post me one of your cinnamon scrolls ….. to Australia ! 😉

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I too have found so many different recipes. I would love yours and cannot wait fir your cookbook! I plan on buying 3 when they come out! My sourdough bread is so hard on the bottom! My favorite is the crunchy part

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Absolutely love whatching your channel 😊

[@ehsanihomestead]

Making some starter from scratch later today thanks to your super informative video! Thanks for sharing your experience

[@ehsanihomestead]

By the way gluten strands get built up during kneading but building up gluten that is too strong by over kneading the dough can lead to chewy/stretchy bread :)

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It’s so good to see you today! 😊

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Good morning from Southern California! So good to see you today. Such a great video, I learned so much! Thanks for sharing!

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What a day! You have worked so much. I am impressed.

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Yes that’s what I’m doing going around with a slice of sour dough bread. ! I love it. Delicious!

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Another great video.

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Bravo Chelsea,your bread looks delicious,better than our bakeries here in France.Have a wonderful week my dear.

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This video (like most!) made me so hungry for all the baking and cooking you did! Thank you for making me feel like I was right there with you. Love the piglets and beautiful wintery landscape~💗💚🤎💜

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Beautiful bread, so good.

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Beautiful bread and cinnamon rolls, thank you for sharing!

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Oh wow, this is what I've been waiting for!! Thank you!

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You have inspired me to make some sourdough bread 🍞 thank you. I must say I absolutely enjoy your content. ❤️🙏🏼

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I love sourdough bread as well but never tried making it. Thank you for sharing this.

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I'm always amazed at the myriad ways to make a sour dough loaf

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I really enjoy your channel. Especially the bread making and making food from scratch,

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Hey 👋🏻 As often as you pull that flour in and out, consider putting some in a lovely glass canister to keep close on your counter. They come in very large sizes.

[@rachellepollock9877]

The cinnamon buns, ham, potatoes and bread look amazing. Appreciate the step by step sourdough bread recipe. I love seeing your farm animals and the piglets too. Thank you for another great video. I always look forward to them. You are an exceptional cook and baker.

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Another wonderful video! Thanks for such great content…💜, from New Brunswick!

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Your sourdough bread, scalloped potatoes and cinnamon buns looked perfect. Yum.

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Beautiful sourdough loaf, really enjoyed the video.xx

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I have the same wooden utensil from Ballerina Farm and use it for everything too! Thank you for this wonderful vlog!

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One of my goals this year is to begin making bread more consistently. Have just started watching - thanks for posting.

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Your farm so good!

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Good morning! Great to see a new video 😊

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Great captivating vlog again! So much teaching in a wonderfully friendly manner! Thanks again! Blessings to all 🤗💜🇨🇦

[@juliebauman3998]

For less frequent jar changes, use a rubber spatula to scrap the glass clean after feeding and using it to bake. Saves a lot of loss of starter and reduces cost.