Bread Making

[tejas]

So... anyone out there ever make sourdough bread?

I've been pondering and found a great site called Sourdough Home that gives what looks to be wonderful instructions on making, and maintaining, your own starter

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[slb44]

My friend Ozy tried and yeah, apparently the local yeastie-beasties were not tasty at all. She keeps saying she's going to try again at a different time of year etc. but I don't believe she's got around to doing so.

[tejas]

I think I'm going to give it a shot and see. It's the only way I'll know one way or another. ;-)

[slb44]

Honestly, yeah. *g*

[tesserae_]

I went through a spell of keeping starter & making sourdough, and I liked it a lot - of course, the stuff is pretty ubiquitous in CA, so it's a taste I'm familar with. I have a cookbook called The Cheese Board - Collective Works from a Bay Area bakery that rrally seems to get the possibilities of the medium and has lots of tips for working with the starter.

It's a committment in the sense that you have to be pretty aggressive about maintenance for the starter, and patient with the rising process (which can be goosed with the addition of fresh yeast). But it's pretty cool, and there are few things yummier than fresh hot sourdough with good butter on it.

[tejas]

I *love* homemade bread, I just haven't made it in ages. Never have tried a local sourdough, though, so this could be a very short experiment. :-)

[tejas]

That's what the site says you can do. Once you get it going, you can keep it in the fridge for up to a month, just take it out and feed a few times before you want to use it again.