Bread with sour dough starter
We've been baking our own bread for a week or more using sourdough starter and its been turning out pretty good. Golden brown crust and moist crumb on the inside. Are there any folks baking bread with starter for yeast? Our current recipe is just flour, water, salt and starter. I begin around 7 pm to mix fold the dough and rest the dough on counter overnight. Refrigerate the next day at 5 - 6 am and bake it after work.
We have a loaf of cheap big box store bread that no one's touched since doing this so it must be good LOL, no it's actually pretty good. It looks like those artisan breads in the bakery.
I think this is the oldest way to use yeast in baking bread. The starter is the yeast and it gets that way from fermenting flour in water. Through the magic of bacteria it makes its own yeast. This is a separate process that's done before mixing the dough.
I haven't ventured to far off except for sourdough pancakes and that was awesome too.