Kitchen

[Nightowlz]

DH has been doing this for a couple of years now. He got his starter from a guy he works with. His wife makes it from scratch without yeast. She makes sourdough bread & sells it for $10 per loaf. It's always sold before she can get it all made. 

DH adds a cup to different recipes. He has added it to several different bread recipes, rolls, hamburger buns, pizza dough etc. He even made some crackers

We use the French bread to make French toast with.  

He has 2 starters he feeds. Gave one to his nephew. His wife now sells sourdough bread. 

[gloriajean]

Ok - Nightowlz, you encouranged me, and my yeast is ready now, so tomorrow I have some out to make pancakes for breakfast, and I'll add an apple to it, and I will also be making the bread.  I read that the yeast is ready when you put a tsp. in water and it floats, it's ready, when it sinks down, it's not ready. It floats!  It's exciting and a new adventure.

The pancake recipe I will make with the discard.

Tomorrow will be an interesting day, and busy!  Hope my body will not get too sore, I'm not the same since I broke my hip last Aug. and had a partial hip replacement. 

[gardenman]

Floating sourdough reminded me of a hilarious three part series on Bon Appetit's YouTube channel where their professional baker Claire Saffitz and resident goofball Brad tried to make sourdough doughnuts. Suffice to say it didn't go so well in the first two episodes. Their "ready to use" sourdough sank like a rock in the float test and things went downhill from there. Do a search for "Brad and Claire make doughnuts" and the video should come up. It's well worth the watch.