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All week I’ve been awaiting this moment. While playing with a jar of flour and water was fun and games, after seven days of feedings, stirrings, sour smells, bubbles and a batch of waffles I’m ready to bake up some bread. Even if it takes me all day to do it! Jokes aside, this recipe fits into my preferred method …
So yesterday I mentioned I wasn’t going to feed my starter, as it was acting pretty sluggish in the cold weather. Well, just check it out after it hung out under my switched-on airconditioner last night. It’s a sourdough explosion and doubled in size after only an hour! Things are definitely back on track now 😉 There is obviously a …
There’s not too much change for my starter from yesterday, it seems to have become a bit sluggish. While I’ve still got no hooch to speak of, I do have some funky enormous bubbles on the surface of the culture and some nice bubbly texture visible when looking at the sides of the jar. It’s hasn’t grown much since feeding …
I’m really enjoying this little sourdough journey! I wonder what other projects we could do in progressive installments? I’ve occasionally had US readers ask if I can mail them scobies (but I’m not able to send them overseas). So perhaps we’ll try growing a SCOBY from bought bottle of kombucha? I’m keen if you are! I’ve also been fielding a few …
Yesterday we had some fun with flour and water, and today we’re going to do it all again and build on our own baby sourdough starter! We learnt a little about the differences between sourdough versus commercial breads in the last post and we made our own starter culture that has now been fermenting for 24 hours. It may or …
Don’t worry about giving me Easter eggs or fluffy bunny toys, I think a black fig tree dwarfed in a pot would be the perfect present for me. I would love the convenience of picking figs from the backyard and currently make do by buying up big on when fresh figs are available. In a magical dream-land this wish would …
