Lately I've been on a quest to bake the perfect loaf of sour dough bread. Near the end of March, I started my own starter and have been nurturing, coaxing, oooohing and aaaaahing at its transformation from a bowl of water, flour and a pinch of sugar ... and turning into this wonderful wild yeast mixture. Thankfully, my new oven has a proofing mode which is a perfect environment to produce the starter. My official taste tester is Ann. She is a sour dough bread affectionado and is quite honest with her opinion. Last night I prepared a sponge dough that included a cup of the starter ... and after getting good and sour in the oven all night ... this morning I baked two loaves of pretty good sour dough bread. My attempts to make said bread in my bread machine were not very well received ... so I'm going to stick with making the sponge dough and tweaking the recipe a bit. If anyone has a suggestion, just leave me a comment. Tonight I'm going to whip up a batch of sour dough pancake mix to make in the morning. My kids are the guinea pigs once again....
Ann's comment as she ate some of the bread: "It makes my mouth pucker" ... the sourer the better in her book. Pancakes came out much as I remembered from childhood ... first had them in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on a family vacation. With the cost of a loaf of good quality sour dough bread ... I'm going to bake to my heart's desire and thumb my nose at store bought. Thanks for the suggestion, Connie ... sounds yummy. Pat ... do you really want some bread ;) ... Margie ... this bread is better and very easy to make without a bread machine. I'll try to post the recipe on my much neglected cooking blog. Grandma ... glad you made it back from your extended trip.
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Life don't slow up for us, does it?
Ummm,I'm back so I'll be bugging you again. I love your pictures of the blue sky and clouds above the mountain, also the pic of the crocus in the snow, and of course the family picture. I missed all my blogging friends while I was gone, including you. I can talk with blogging friends without having to talk. (wasn't that clever) I don't feel very clever though, my apeech is worse and I can scold Pop and he don't even know it because he can't ubderstand a word I say. :-)
When I want something a little different, I add a Tablespoon of Italian Seasoning into my roll recipe. It is really good especially if you are having spaghetti or such!
Connie
MMmmmm, I love sour dough!
My suggestion would be to wrap up a loaf and mail it to me. I'd be glad to join Ann as a second opinion taste tester....just in case she's a little biased!
sour dough sounds good, but never had it.
sounds good, I wish i was a bread maker...
Yes.
I wish I had some sourdough pancakes. My older brother used to make them when I was still at home. He always liked to try sommething different. I'd better explain myself a bit, lol. I'm a person that's likes variety, which means why not 2 blog spots? You've heard of people with split personalities, well why not a split blog. I couldn't keep up one for awhile now I try to keep up two. Although I find it rather easy, I firt print my post on word, then all I have to do is copy and paste, first to one blog and then to the other. Tio my dear friends on xanga...it's so hard to post on blogger that I hate to put them through the test. To those on blogger, they don't have to open an xanga account to get to mine. Are you still with me (I'm not sure I am) Your a very dear lady and I don't want to lose you so I'll keeep you one way or the other. :-) Love from Gramma's Place
i love the sour dough i had in finland - i can't seem to find the right types here in Canada ... and baking it myself? well maybe i will just have to start doing that!
Did you take the calories out? Bread always goes right to my hips!
ummmm! sounds delish!
Happy Mother's Day, my friend!
Dear Mrs. Mac...Just popping in to say Happy Mothers Day and hoping that your husband and children and grandchild are treating you like the queen you are!...Love Terry
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