IT'S ALIVE!

[alfreda89]

Does anyone have a sourdough bread recipe they love, and will share?

Why? We gotta make sure this is good stuff before forwarding!

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Great minds think alike! The question of the ancient K____ sourdough has been raised, and today, I can answer it. The yeast lives!

Seriously, the yeast was dried and in the back if the fridge when we moved from our previous house. I asked W what it was, and he told me -- and it occurred to me that yeast dormant for thousands of years has been cultured. So, we took it along. And last week, I gave it organic wheat and water, prepared the jar, and tucked it next to the refrigerator. I can smell sourness and alcohol, and I think we're in business.

The proper way to send it, amazingly, is to dry it out, probably on parchment paper, and then mail it along. So, when I'm sure we're doing all right, I will dry out some yeast and send it along.

Dad Yeast -- the glue of the family! (Apparently in the family some XX years or so.)

Comments

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Just pack it well. If it spills, your yeast could make the evening news.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I won't be sending any starter -- just dried yeast, if we decide the bread is good. (Mostly if W decides -- I am not sure I can be that adventurous right now.)

How goes things? Working on anything new?

[moon-happy.livejournal.com]

Hang tight until this evening. DH has a great sourdough bread recipe. He or me will have to put hands on it.

[moon-happy.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. The great sourdough bread recipe is actually a great potato bread recipe; he says he doesn't make sourdough.

Ah --

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Disappointed but I shall survive and search on. Thanks for looking!