So I've been wanting to try my hand at sourdough bread for a while now, and I had even found a fairly simple starter recipe. So I thought it would be a really good idea to wait until after we had a hotter than usual week, and had a week full of freeze warnings to try my first attempt-smart, real smart.
The ingredients: whole wheat flour & pure water (non-chlorinated)
Mix it all up, put it in a warm place and wait (feeding it every day, sometimes twice a day)
After a day or two, not too bad, it's sort of looking "yeasty". I'm seeing bubbles! This might work after all...
Um, maybe not.
After 4 or 5 days, and far too much good whole wheat flour, I'm calling this a fail. I could actually submit this sucker to Pintrosity if I felt like it, but I don't. Thankfully I saw a pretty nice (and only $11) Natural Yeast Cookbook at Costco this week. And as a sweet bonus-they had two mail-order (free/super cheap) starter options as well. I think I'm going to give this a break until we warm up a bit (which won't take long thanks to a stinking groundhog), and then I'll give it a go again.
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