Soak the raisins in water prior to starting the dough. Combine the flour, active starter, butter, salt, sugar, vanilla, and ...

You can pick up the KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer for around $499/ £469 ... A standard dough hook is for kneading bread dough, while the whisk will whip up cream and egg whites.

For the stand, she used the initial chicken coop she ... she put out homemade sourdough bread. "It just spiraled from there," Van Erkel said. "So I kept putting bread and eggs out on Fridays ...