Yeast is Yeast and West is West
Mar. 30th, 2010 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceOh, but I do love to play with sourdough...
When I went away, I hadn't used my sourdough starter for a few weeks; by the time I came back, make that a couple of months. It had descended into a grey sludge beneath a film of liquor.
Just a couple of teaspoonfuls of sludge, worked into fresh flour and water, fed daily for a few days, and I have a lively starter back. Too lively, almost: I half-filled a Kilner jar with it yesterday, and next time I looked it was threatening the lid. I gave it a stern talking-to, and put it in the fridge to calm it down.
This morning I went to use it, and found that fridge schmidge, it had erupted through the seal of the sealed Kilner jar and was oozing out all over...
So. I'm sorry I didn't think to photo it until I had dragged the bulk of it from the jar, all clingy and stretchy and thready as it is, and beaten it severely in water. I have now combined that with flours and salt and oil, and it is to make me bread, please.
If anyone local wants a sourdough starter, you need but ask; I still have the remainder of the sludge...
ETA: So I had left the dough on the worksurface under a cloth, to rest for ten minutes while I trotted up here to write this. Went back down to find Mac kneading it. Honestly truly: both front paws, through the cloth, kneading away...
When I went away, I hadn't used my sourdough starter for a few weeks; by the time I came back, make that a couple of months. It had descended into a grey sludge beneath a film of liquor.
Just a couple of teaspoonfuls of sludge, worked into fresh flour and water, fed daily for a few days, and I have a lively starter back. Too lively, almost: I half-filled a Kilner jar with it yesterday, and next time I looked it was threatening the lid. I gave it a stern talking-to, and put it in the fridge to calm it down.
This morning I went to use it, and found that fridge schmidge, it had erupted through the seal of the sealed Kilner jar and was oozing out all over...
So. I'm sorry I didn't think to photo it until I had dragged the bulk of it from the jar, all clingy and stretchy and thready as it is, and beaten it severely in water. I have now combined that with flours and salt and oil, and it is to make me bread, please.
If anyone local wants a sourdough starter, you need but ask; I still have the remainder of the sludge...
ETA: So I had left the dough on the worksurface under a cloth, to rest for ten minutes while I trotted up here to write this. Went back down to find Mac kneading it. Honestly truly: both front paws, through the cloth, kneading away...