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Pure Bake happens in our home kitchen. We bake in small batches. The advantage to our customers of baking in small batches is that each loaf takes on more importance. Each loaf gets attention. We are not a factory. We quality check, picking each one up for a close look. Sometimes, a loaf just won’t […]

Captain & Stoker, a local Monterey coffee shop, is making this delicious Avocado Toast using our fresh-baked Pure Bake Sourdough bread. We make it for them in a sandwich loaf so it’s easy for them to make the toast. Here’s a video showing the toast. We hope you go there and try it. You can […]

When the sourdough loaf comes out of the hot oven the crust is crispy and delicious. The first day is spent trying to resist eating all of that delicious bread with its crispy, crackly crust. Next day, what happened? Everything is still delicious but where did the crispiness go? The crust is soft, chewy, even […]

Hi, I’m Cathy. I created Pure Bake Home Kitchen to bake the most delicious home-made sourdough bread. We are a licensed cottage bakery, baking at home in an inspected, certified kitchen. We use the purest and simplest of ingredients.

We’ve been baking sourdough bread in our licensed, inspected home kitchen for almost two years now. As you know, our retail loaves are in numbered, dated, and signed bags. The wholesale two pounders are not numbered. They get cut up and served as Avocado Toast at Captain + Stoker in Monterey. So even though we […]