My first homemade sourdough bread.

[Lunabell]

Holy cow! It is sooooo good.

I started my starter a few weeks ago with all purpose flour. It bubbled but did not rise. I read that was because the wild yeasts hadn't enriched the starter and that rye flour would help. I bought some rye flour from the local health food store and within 2 days, it was bubbling and rising. I couldn't wait on a trditional sourdough without using yeast, so this loaf was made with some yeast. Real sourdough without yeast in the mixture takes 24 to 36 hours from start to finish. It is so worth the several weeks wait for my starter. Crunchy crust, smooth crumb and a wonderfully sour taste.

My next loaf will be the traditional way, without yeast.

[MLAA]

1. Beautiful shot of the moon, it really does have holes!

Sure wish I could join you with some sourdough toast!

[chowder66]

11. Lol!

[Lunabell]

17. Lol

It was really delicious. I love making bread but have never done a sourdough starter and bread. It's been fun.

[jls4561]

2. Yum!!!

[Emile]

3. Slap a little cinnamon butter on a slice, yummy 😋.

[MOMFUDSKI]

4. Fabulous!

I had some starter years back. I am thinking of getting back into creating a starter again. It is the science of cooking that I love.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Oh man, there is nothing better than warm bread out of the oven with butter.

I have to live vicariously on thoughts of warm bread and butter these days, but my favorite is rosemary sourdough!

[Blue Owl]

6. Love sourdough bread!

[Lunabell]

26. Me too!

And it really isn't that hard! I used my dough cycle on the bread macine then the second rise was in the dutch oven. Bake with the lid on @420° for 30 minutes, then lid off for 20. Easy as pie. No wait, easier than pie!

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Nice. Nothing like homemade bread from scratch, there's nothing that compares to the taste!

Thanks for sharing!

[Lunabell]

25. Thank you, my pleasure!

And oh, yes! So delicious.

[Bleacher Creature]

8. That looks great! How did you keep the starter warm enough?

I keep meaning to try, but I read that you need to keep it at 75-80 degrees.

[Bobstandard]

16. 75-80 degrees is great--but not necessary

There are two states for sourdough starter, ‘keeping’, and ‘working’.

You can keep sourdough starter in the refrigerator for a week or more. So it’s fine withstanding temps in the 40s. Iff storing this way it’s best to ‘feed’ the starter and get it working again briefly every week or ten days. (Though a good starter can handle a few weeks unattended in the refer).

If you’re getting ready to bake, you have to get the starter working-rising and bubbling-by feeding it. That goes quickly at 75-80 degree ambient temperature. But it’s a time versus temp thing. At lower temperatures the starter will still work, it will just take longer. I get mine working by putting a newly fed batch in the oven with the oven light turned on. That usually provides enough warmth to get a good ‘work’ in two to three hours. If it’s cold outside I’ll put in a mug with hot water to heat the oven a little more. It’s fun tinkering with the combinations.

[Lunabell]

18. I put it in my microwave with the door open and the light on.

But, first, I boil a cup of water in there and leave it after it's boiled. I found out the hard way that if you use cold water and boil it in the microwave, it can explode! Use hot water because the surface tension of the cold water causes the water to get hotter under the surface and blammo! Water everywhere in the microwave. Lol, it was ok though because I needed to clean the microwave anyway.

[BigmanPigman]

9. I grew up reading Little House books

and the Ingalls family always had sourdough starter in their house, no matter where they moved and lived. The word "sourdough" was never mentioned so when I got older I realized that they were making sourdough bread

[Lunabell]

19. My favorite series of books as a kid!!

I even went and reread them as an adult. Such an interesting life and that blizzard? Wow, I've lived in the south my whole life and have never seen snow deeper than 2 feet. I couldn't imagine living with snow 2 to 3 stories high!

[BigmanPigman]

28. I received a book called Pioneer Girl

in 2014 and then did a lot of research over the last few years and I have changed my opinion about the stories and author 100%, and not in a positive way.

[mitch96]

10. I love making my most fav food. BREAD!! I use the dutch oven technique and the bread comes out

delish. The only problem is if I look at a carbohydrate from 5 miles away I gain weight so I stopped making bread. Same with brewing beer. Fun while it lasted but I had to stop or grow to the size of a winnebago.
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[Lunabell]

20. I used a dutch oven.

It was recommended because it steams the bread first, then you remove the lid and bake for another 20 minutes to get that crunchy crust.

[fierywoman]

12. Good on you! You'll find that bread is very forgiving, so go for it !!!

[Lunabell]

24. That's what all the websites say.

The starter is very forgiving.

[wiggs]

13. Nice! Welcome to the club. Satisfying activity to take up and learn. Lots of sourdough discard

recipes to explore as well...pancakes, crackers, cakes.

I'm currently making more sourdough pizza dough than bread, but once weather gets cooler bread will happen about every other week.

[Lunabell]

21. I love cooking and baking so much.

It's my creative outlet. I found a recipe for starter discard peanut butter cookies I'm going to try this weekend. After I make the authentic traditional sourdough bread without yeast. I am so glad I got the rye flour. Betty, my starter, absolutely rose to the occasion!

[multigraincracker]

14. My oven quit years ago.

Go to the bakery and buy my 2 favorites.
Multigrain Sourdough and pumpernickel. Then always try to get some sour kraut on top.

[Lunabell]

23. Oh no!

Is it the elements? There are some really good videos on YouTube on changing them. I did it a couple of years ago and saved a lot of money. I bought the element on Amazon. Cost about fifty bucks.

[multigraincracker]

27. Thanks, but not the elements.

Get a code 04. Found a video but not for the stove I have. Just got use to not having one. Keep saying we are going to get a new one.

[Bobstandard]

15. I'm hooked on the no-knead sourdough recipes available on line

I’ve tried a bunch of really good sourdough bread recipes, focusing on the ones that only use sourdough for the leaven. I was skeptical about the no-knead recipes available from King Arthur, Bob’s Red Mill, The Clever Carrot, etc. They’re all about exactly the same. Super easy and they work.

[Lunabell]

22. Yep, I used the dough setting on my bread machine.

Then transferred it to the dutch oven to rise and bake. So easy!