Bread - Sour dough with cheese starter success

My fake sour dough made with cheese starter actually worked.

I doubt it ever would have risen without the packet yeast, but the flavour was interesting.

It was also interesting that the texture of the dough was so different. I have no idea if it was because it was made with curds and whey, or if that's that's just a feature of something else I did that I have no idea about.

Many things baffle me.

But the loaf worked and tasted great.

Due to my temperamental camera (It's either not focusing properly, or missing altogether lately) I managed to completely fail to get pictures, but heres a "just in time" effort of the loaf.

I don't know why it was eaten from both ends like that. Perhaps someone found the crust particularly worthwhile, but at least I got a pic of the last slice.






120 Things in 20 years finds me in bed with a really bad cold, rather than dealing with my sour dough bread made with cheese starter successes.

Bread - Sourdough

So I thought I'd make some sourdough bread.

I looked some stuff up.

I discovered it had some lactobacillus in it.

That's what makes it sour.

I remembered from some earlier research, that that's the beastie that makes cheese, cheese.

Now normally you make sourdough by making a slurry of flour and water and waiting, then once it's been inoculated, you take half the slurry, and add it to your flour, and then re-feed the slurry with replacement flour and water. This way, you always have some alive and festering in the back of your fridge. That's called a sour dough starter.

There are apparently different kinds of beastie in different parts of the world, and thus, the traditional sourdoughs are different. even from village to village.

People and their marriages and social minglings are recorded in those peoples sourdough starters that fester in the backs of their fridges.

So because I dont know anyone with sourdough festering in the back of their fridge, but remembered I had some old cheese starter in the back of my own freezer, I thought I might try a shortcut.

I put some milk in a container with a little sugar and a little flour, then added a pinch of the cheese starter.

It's now halfway through it's first rising.

It looked really, really interesting when it was just a liquid.






120 Things in 20 years - Sourdough bread. My camera is stupid.