Sourdough Goodies

[Ivantherussian03]

I have meant to post pictures of my bread on here for a while. I love real bread. But I never knew what it was until the military sent me to Germany. :-D Plain white bread has never looked good since.:(
Those are pigs in a blanket in the background, made by my lovely wife.

[piwo]

I have meant to post pictures of my bread on here for a while. I love real bread. But I never knew what it was until the military sent me to Germany. :-D Plain white bread has never looked good since.:(
Those are pigs in a blanket in the background, made by my lovely wife.

Perhaps you'd like to try some of my Polish babka bread:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b253/Piwo/Polish%20Food/IMG_0344.jpg

Maybe some homemade czerwony barszcz to go with it:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b253/Piwo/Polish%20Food/IMG_0357.jpg

The babka is easy: the barszcz is a pain in the dupa!

[piwo]

Ivan,
Are you gonna share that recipe, or just taunting us with it. Give man!

[Ivantherussian03]

Oh, well it not much of a reciepe.


2 cups starter
handful of sugar
6 cups flour
mix well
add cups flour
knead a goodly amount of time or until dough feel spongee

let rise in warm place

divide, shape loaves, pad in corn meal in loaves skin

let rise again

bake 350

1hr

[Scrounger]

Ivan, where can we get sourdough starter?

[Ivantherussian03]

Sourdough is like most things; it is a learning curve, and some people say its a science, and like most things there are a multitude of ways to do it.

Ok, you can make it. Get yourself a quart canning jar. I use a 2 quart. Take the canning lid and poke holes in it with a nail.

Sour Dough Starter

2 cups flour
1handful of sugar or 1/4 cup sugar
a cup of warm water

Mix into a soupy slurry

pour into the canning jar
place lid on
let it sit out

the yeast will natural drop out of the air into the jar or you can add yeast and be done.

let it sit out on the counter

It might take a few days, and bubbles will form (carbon dioxide from the yeast)


take care of the starter

If you leave the starter on the counter, it will need to be fed every 3 days.

sugar is food (1/4 cup)

If you use the starter the food is:
Sugar
2 cups flour
1 cup warm water
mixed

You can store it in the frig, up to week. Then feed as directed.

Let it sit on the counter at least a day and get warm.

[scrapcan]

you can get a starter and a crock from king arthur flour. You can make your own starter using above recipe. order from Sour dough international, or maybe a member here would send you some.

Sour dough International, their classic sourdough (Ed Wood is the author) book has been a big help to me.
http://www.sourdo.com/

King Arthur Flour
http://www.kingarthurflour.com


Here is a link to some good info on Sourdough
http://www.nyx.net/~dgreenw/sourdoughfaqs.html

And here is another place to get an an old starter, and some interesting reading.
http://home.att.net/~carlsfriends/

[PineTreeGreen]

A few grains of dried yeast will start sourdough (maybe I should have said a few granueles[sp] lest someone thinks an '06 case full is a few grains) and I never put sugar in the starter,just flour and water. It takes about a week to age and work. Sugar will be quicker,but has a differant flavor.[smilie=1:

[fiberoptik]

Sourdough.... the ONLY PANCAKE!!! (With buckwheat flour boyz)


Oh. Keep the starter in gallon ziplock baggies. Stuff in frig. if not 2 use 4 a week or so.

[hivoltfl]

My Aunt had a running batch of sourdough that was 42 years old when she passed, NO ONE but her was allowed to pull the cheesecloth back off the crock, I sure miss her good biscuts,

Rick