My granddaughter Maura baked Sourdough Banana Bread last week and sent a picture. I’d given her some sourdough starter a couple of weeks ago.
I felt inspired to try and bake it myself. Needed just 3 ripe bananas.
These little glass muffin cups held the leftover batter from the larger loaf.
Here’s the recipe I used. It was really good
Sharon W gsve me the little wooden slice of bread cutting board.
I’m trying to get into the Sourdough baking rhythm/routine.
These loaves were recipes from a cookbook I took out of the library
Classic Sourdoughs
by Ed Wood, Jean Wood
Next time I’m not going to do two different recipes simultaneously.
My grandson Jack made this cutting board and I posted it before but I’m so proud of his handiwork and craftsmanship I’m posting again.
Now that loaf of sourdough was not a pretty one but it tasted good. I think the dough was too wet.
In the late 1950s my father would get Limpa Bread from a Swedish man named Elmer in a deli in New Jersey. Sharp cheese wrapped in a paper went on the slice of brown bread. It was delicious. I made the Joy of Cooking recipe for Limpa bread about 40 years ago but it wasn’t as I remembered. But-
I got a recipe from this library book pictured below, using some of the sourdough starter my friend gave me
I wanted an honest critique of my efforts so Chef Sam met me in the Millvale parking lot to try a slice. He brought sharp cheese, a homegrown cucumber sliced and Kalamata Olives
Maybe a tad less of the dark rye, he said, but that the flavors were wonderful
I think the recipe from this cookbook was the answer to baking the bread of my childhood, delicious
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.
