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Small-batch sourdough · La Jolla

Slow-risen bread, baked a few blocks from the cove.

Naturally leavened loaves made by hand in small batches. Pick it up in La Jolla or get it delivered around San Diego, ready within two days of ordering.

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Made in La Jolla. Just for our neighbors.

Walnut and pecan sourdough boule with a deeply browned crust, dusted with flour and scored with a leaf pattern, resting on a wooden peel with a bread knife behind it
Made by handWorth the wait

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A little flour. A lot of patience.

This week's bread

Slow fermented. Small batch. All sourdough.

Crusty sourdough boule cooling on a wire rack beside small orange pumpkins
Limited timeFall bakes are here, only while pumpkins are in season.
Walnut and pecan sourdough boule with a deeply browned crust, dusted with flour and scored with a leaf pattern, resting on a wooden peel
Sliced walnut pecan sourdough on a wooden board, showing walnuts and pecans throughout the tender crumb beside a thick slice
Close view of walnut pecan sourdough cut in half, walnuts and pecans speckled through the crumb, with a thick slice laid in front on the board

Walnut Pecan Sourdough

$18

My everyday sourdough, packed with walnuts and pecans. A deep, crackly crust, a tender crumb, and nuts in every slice. Made with Nana Donna's starter and a long, slow rise.

From nuts to loaf

  1. 1. Pecans
  2. 2. Walnuts
  3. 3. Baked into every slice

Made with Nana Donna's starter

Contains: wheat, tree nuts (walnuts, pecans)

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Tall golden loaf of homemade white bread on a wooden cutting board
Freshly baked white bread still in its white ceramic loaf pan on a cooling rack
Whole loaf of white bread sitting in a bamboo bread slicing guide
Turkey, cheese and lettuce sandwich on thick slices of homemade white bread
Perfect for sandwiches.
Sliced white bread showing a cinnamon swirl through the crumb, in a bamboo slicer
Cinnamon swirl

White Bread

$14

A classic, fluffy sandwich loaf with a soft, golden crust. Perfect for toast, grilled cheese and school lunches. Made with just a few simple ingredients: flour, butter, a little milk and sugar.

Ingredients

Wheat flour, water, milk, butter (milk), sugar, salt, yeast.

Contains: Wheat, Milk

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Walnut banana bread loaf on a wooden board with a thick slice cut from one end, walnuts speckled through the golden crumb
Walnut banana bread baked in a white ceramic loaf dish, with small pie pumpkins beside it
Blueberry banana bread loaf on a wooden cutting board with a thick slice cut from one end, whole blueberries speckled through the golden crumb
With blueberries

Banana Bread

$16

Soft, moist and full of real banana flavor, with a hint of cinnamon and a golden, caramelized top. Made with ripe bananas, brown sugar and butter. The kind of slice you'll want warm with your morning coffee.

Ingredients

Bananas, wheat flour, brown sugar, butter (milk), eggs, Greek yogurt (milk), baking soda, vanilla extract, salt, cinnamon.

Contains: Wheat, Milk, Eggs

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Moist pumpkin bread loaf on a wooden board with a thick slice cut and laid in front
Whole golden-brown pumpkin bread loaf on a wooden cutting board
Glass jar filled with bright orange homemade pumpkin puree

Pumpkin Bread

$16

Our fall-only loaf, made the slow way: we roast sweet pie pumpkins and puree them by hand. Never canned. Tender and moist, with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves and a little orange to brighten it up. Here only while pumpkins are in season.

From pumpkin to loaf

  1. 1. Real pie pumpkins
  2. 2. Roasted
  3. 3. Pureed by hand, never canned
  4. 4. Baked
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Ingredients

Pumpkin, wheat flour, brown sugar, canola oil, sugar, eggs, orange juice, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, cloves, ginger.

Contains: Wheat, Eggs

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How it's made

Good add-ins, nothing fancy

Pile of pecan halves on a wooden cutting board
Pecans
Pile of walnut halves on a wooden cutting board
Walnuts
Rolled-out dough spread with cinnamon sugar and chopped pecan filling on a kitchen counter
Cinnamon pecan filling
Stretched dough sprinkled with chopped almonds on a granite counter beside a rolling pin
Almond dough
Sourdough loaf baking inside an enameled cast-iron Dutch oven, lifted by a silicone sling resting on a kitchen towel
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Your neighborhood baker

Hi, I'm Emma.

[EMMA'S STORY — HOW YOUR SOURDOUGH JOURNEY BEGAN, WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT BAKING, AND WHY LA JOLLA IS HOME.]

Nana Donna taught me to bake sourdough and gave me her starter years ago. Every sourdough loaf I bake is made with it.

I bake sourdough by hand in small batches, right here in my La Jolla home kitchen.

See you at the next bake,
Emma
Emma and her grandmother Nana Donna kneading dough together at a kitchen islandNana Donna laughing in her kitchen, holding a spatula over slices of fresh bread