This year, I'm going to teach myself to make sourdough bread, I swear it. The first step was to capture a wild yeast, and that has been accomplished - in the first effort, I might add, proudly.
Below is Doug, the wild yeasty sourdough starter ( we named it Doug ). Yesterday it was bubbly and very active, so I poured off a cup of it and began the process of baking the first loaf of sourdough. As you can see, those yeasts are pissed off, and ready to fight, so I gave them some flour to fight with.
After an afternoon of mixing, kneading and baking, this is what came out of the Lodge camp stove:
Good bread, but not sour enough for my liking. I fed Doug this morning, and the wife put him in a warm spot so he would increase, and he did, no problem. I have another ball of dough rising now, and since the word is that the longer you let it rise, the sourer it gets, I think it will be an all day rise, beat down, and rise again, until the bake this evening.
To be continued....
I've been working on a sourdough starter too. Mine is named Bubbles. ;) Mine smells really sour, I'm going to peruse some more utube vids on sourdough before I try my hand at the bread making. I just thought it would be a good skill to acquire if I'm not able to buy cheap yeast at Costco....
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Here is a site that I found helpful. Also, it's just more fun if you can bake with yeast that you captured yourself!
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This is good for when you're in a time of knead!!
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