Welcome to The Clapham Crumb

Hello, and welcome — whether you've wandered over from Instagram or landed here by happy accident.

The Clapham Crumb started as a photo diary: one loaf at a time, crust reveals, crumb shots, and captions that got steadily longer until Instagram's character limit and I fell out. This site is the overflow.

Here's what lives where:

• Recipes — the bakes I've made enough times to write down properly, with the troubleshooting notes I wish I'd had.
• The diary — you are here. Experiments, failures, and things I learned the floury way.
• My baking kit — the tools I actually use, with an honest note on each (and an honest disclosure: some links are affiliate links).

If you only take one thing from this site, make it the everyday sourdough loaf. It's the recipe behind 90% of my photos and it's built around a normal working day — no 3pm stretch-and-folds, no bakery flour.

Bake something? Tag @theclaphamcrumb — seeing your crumb genuinely makes my day.

— Jess