Keep the sour dough starter fresh and going and you can have bread for life. (In addition, one only needs some flour, salt, maybe a bit of sugar and water - and these are the ingredients plus lots of patience and some time). The starter I am using was started a couple of hundred year ago according to Flour Manufacturer, King Arthur.
Sour dough bread from scratch without a quick rising yeast takes time. There is an over night required after you mix the ingredients and then a five hour resting period and then a two to three hour rising after shaping the bread before baking. And, oh, yes, the starter needs renewal and mixing each week, whether you make bread or not.
But the outcomes are worth the time.
Give us any day our daily bread and it is a good day.
Even better I suppose the starter came from a poetess friend who had acquired some sour dough bread starter from King Arthur Flour, and it is seemingly a fine quality starter, as is my sweet friend. I am a lucky woman to know fine folks and beautiful experiences. I know this to be so.
And so far we have had several breads, rolls and tonight a pizza flat bread. The variety of possibilities seems endless.
Everything in life deserves a good start . .
Sour dough bread from scratch without a quick rising yeast takes time. There is an over night required after you mix the ingredients and then a five hour resting period and then a two to three hour rising after shaping the bread before baking. And, oh, yes, the starter needs renewal and mixing each week, whether you make bread or not.
But the outcomes are worth the time.
Give us any day our daily bread and it is a good day.
Even better I suppose the starter came from a poetess friend who had acquired some sour dough bread starter from King Arthur Flour, and it is seemingly a fine quality starter, as is my sweet friend. I am a lucky woman to know fine folks and beautiful experiences. I know this to be so.
And so far we have had several breads, rolls and tonight a pizza flat bread. The variety of possibilities seems endless.
Everything in life deserves a good start . .
*I'll blog on this some other day, but from my kitchen ceiling hang some 30 or so tea pots, each from a dear friend. . .
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