Nov02

Sourdough Saga

02:13 pm on Nov 2nd 2006 BethTN

Here is my sourdough starter.

The brown liquid is called hooch. Hooch is the watery layer that contains alcohol. It smells beer like because it is a bit like beer. I read that some people use to drink it…however until you have made your own sourdough hooch, you will never know how disgusting the thought of drinking that stuff is.

It doesn’t hurt your sourdough starter. Before using it, I would just stir the starter to blend the hooch with the flour mixture. However, this particular day, I have too much hooch, so I would drain some of it off before stirring.

Through this Sourdough learning process I have come to learn a few vital things about myself. One is……if we were immediately required to live a 1800’s life, we would die because I am homemaking challenged ;-)
I started out with regular bread flour and had the process running smoothly UNTIL I decided to switch to whole grain. I had ordered 50 lbs of grain and once it arrived I gradually started switching over my starter. Well, that didn’t work so well. My bread immediately went flat and gained a stronger sour flavor. I have since learned that you are NEVER supposed to switch food on your starter. If you start out feeding bread flour, don’t switch to another type of flour.

With that, I am trying not to despair. I have since made wonderful sourdough pancakes out of my starter, however I think I will start a new starter just on bread flour again since I know that works. I need to do further research on freshly ground whole grain sourdough and which type of grain would work best besides the recommend Rye grain.

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6 Responses to “Sourdough Saga”

  1. Claire Hall Nov 2nd 2006 at 06:45 pm 1

    LOL…if YOU are homemaking challenged, what does that make the rest of us???

  2. sarah Nov 3rd 2006 at 12:54 am 2

    HAHAHAHA!!!! I’m SO with you Claire! I was TOTALLY rolling my eyes at the homemaking challenged comment. lol.

    Having said that…. hooch…. hahahahaaaaa [yeah, I am feeling a little immature right now]

  3. sarah walston Nov 3rd 2006 at 09:09 am 3

    One is……if we were immediately required to live a 1800’s life, we would die because I am homemaking challenged ;-)

    ROFLOL

    WHATEVER BETHANY!!!!!!

    ROFLOL I’m gonna laugh about that all day. Beth - you do realize you would out live probably all of us who read your blog!?!?!

    I mean, for Pete’s sake….I don’t even want to CONSIDER making my own sour dough bread starter hooch pancakes whatever. Aunt Jemima’s pancake mix, when it’s on sale, bought in bulk, suffices.

    You know I love you though - even if you do suffer from homemaking OCD.

  4. sarah Nov 4th 2006 at 01:17 am 4

    lol, I enjoyed sarah walstons remark. homemaking ocd….hahhaaa :)

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