25 July 2015

Sourdough Bread

Average kitchen ambient temperature: 8-16C.
It was certainly a risk to attempt culturing my own sourdough.  But it worked!  Though more work needed to perfect the bread.

The original recipe for the starter was from Nourish Kitchen but many _ad hoc_ modifications were made:
- Feeding was dropped to once a day to twice every three days to adjust for the slower growth in the dead of winter.
- Feeding amount was also reduced to 1/4-1/3 cup of flour.
- Instead of throwing excess growth away, I split the starter. This was mostly so I have a parallel experiment. 

The starter's about 12 daya old now.  Growing slow,  but growing. Nice sour aroma. Looked a bit dry this morning,  so may start feeding more often.

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