A friend at exercise class gave me sourdough starter and a basic recipe. I learned why she advised don’t use tap water. Filtered or Spring water. The chlorine in the city water can kill the yeast (or at least slow it down.)
I’ve been feeding the starter refrigerating it when I’d leave town, take it back out and feed it again and was planning to bake sourdough bread.
Today was the day. I used a ln enameled cast iron bread baker that Jen S and I bought from Aldi last year.
I took a book out of the library through the Libby App online and renewed it tonight.
Yay! Beautiful. Rick all in on backing sourdough these days. I love it!
Using the dough hook is satisfying, too. Rick is a bread making master.
Beautiful sourdough, great job Ruth. I’ve got a sourdough starter, I’ve had going since 11/9/2019. We love it. I ordered it from King Arthur Flour. I’ve made sourdough chocolate cake and it was delicious.
I will have to investigate that cake. Sounds intriguing. Wow you’ve kept that going a long time. Do you bake every week?
I bake every 2 to 3 weeks, The starter I had before this one, I kept going for 5 years. It’s addicting once you start. I believe I used the sourdough chocolate cake recipe from King Arthurs’s website. That was the best chocolate cake I’ve ever had, so moist and flavorful. I am going to dry sourdough crackers with the discard. I’ll keep you posted.
It looks beautiful! Great job!
Thanks Sue.
Is there anything that you cannot do? dc
I believe there is a pretty long list.
Looks good enough to eat!
Yes and the smell while baking is so good.
Looks yummy 🙂
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Congratulations
Thanks Sheree.
Sounds like a great idea. We’ll have to give it a go. Thanks for sharing the process.
Reading the cookbook and watching the video was really helpful to me. Thank you
Yes! Very important to use water that wont kill the yeast 🙂 We use a Berkey filter, but those can be really expensive.
I’ll check that out. Thank you.
Excellent
Thank you
That looks amazing! I’ve tried four times now to make my own starter and I just can’t get it right!
A friend gave me some of hers and that made it easy to get going
That looks tremendous. I’ve heard how some people regard their sourdough starter like a pet.
I’ve heard there are sourdough “hotels” that feed your starter while you’re away on vacation. I think the one I heard about was Finland?
I’m not surprised. I hope yours lives long and helps you feel good.
Thanks Gary. It was a satisfying adventure
looks delicious
Looks like it turned out well Ruth. I’ve been playing around with sourdough for a few years now, love the flavour. I do use tap water, but I always boil it first. I haven’t had any problems, but out water could be different.
We had chlorine in our water I hear. I think if it’s left out 24 hours the chlorine dissipates but I’m trying to give it the best possible chance. Yes it’s a delicious flavor. You feel like you’re really living well, eating it😂