Sour dough bread from scratch : It begins
Recently Gary handed me a recipe for making sour dough bread from scratch. I'm a big fan of Sour Dough so I enthusiastically took on the project.
First up, I needed the peel from twenty apples. They were 'out of season' but Gary found a bucket load for a decent price at the Saturday markets.
The first problem was, what do we do with all the apple flesh, which for the first time, was a bi-product?
Lots of baking was the answer!
I churned out a Strudel, a pie, some sauce for pork, and we produced so many muffins we had to freeze most of them to keep them fresh.
Sour dough bread from scratch : Experimentation
First up, I needed the peel from twenty apples. They were 'out of season' but Gary found a bucket load for a decent price at the Saturday markets.
The first problem was, what do we do with all the apple flesh, which for the first time, was a bi-product?
Lots of baking was the answer!
I churned out a Strudel, a pie, some sauce for pork, and we produced so many muffins we had to freeze most of them to keep them fresh.
Sour dough bread from scratch : Experimentation
They all look great. I'll often mix up a large amount of muffin mix, bake what I need and freeze the remainder of the batter in tubs to bake at a later date. Dan Lepard has some excellent sourdough starters - a difficulty I've come across is that many of the starter recipes you'll find are geared more to bakery production rather than the home baker, and so starters require quite a lot of wasteful feeding of yoghurt / milk / flour / orange juice / insert whatever every day or so. I've had good results using a French levain starter, which only needs about 70g refreshment a day. ("Short and Sweet" and "Baking with Passion" are two excellent Lepard books.)
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