Con Ternura Bakery — Plain Sourdough

🥛 Local delivery & in-store pickup. This is a fresh-baked local item. Order it here and choose Local Delivery (within 5 miles of our Modesto store, delivered after 7 PM) or Pickup at 429 McHenry Ave at checkout — we keep it cold the whole way. It cannot be shipped nationally.

Real sourdough, baked in Modesto, with three ingredients and a lot of time.

Con Ternura's plain sourdough is naturally leavened with a wild starter, no commercial yeast, and slow fermented before it is baked. Flour, water, salt, and hours of patience. The crust is blistered and crackling, the crumb open and tangy.

That long fermentation is the whole point. The wild yeast and bacteria in a sourdough culture break down much of the gluten and the phytic acid in the flour before you eat it, which is why many people who feel heavy after ordinary bread digest true sourdough comfortably. It also has a gentler effect on blood sugar than yeasted bread, and no dough conditioners, preservatives or added sugar.

Who this is for

• You feel bloated after supermarket bread and miss real bread
• You want a loaf with an ingredient list you can count on one hand
• You are watching blood sugar and want bread that behaves better
• You want to support a Modesto baker instead of a factory

Details

Baked fresh for the counter; what is here is what was baked for today. Store cut side down on a board or in a paper bag; slice and freeze what you will not eat in three days.

Loaf is the classic round. Sandwich is the same dough in a pan for even slices. Bagels are sourdough bagels. Pumpkin cinnamon swirl is the seasonal sweet loaf.

Con Ternura Bakery is a small-batch sourdough bakery in Modesto. The name means with tenderness, and it shows in the bread.