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Sourdough Starter

As part of The Big Cookbook Binge of January ‘06, I picked up Breads from the La Brea Bakery and the previously mentioned American Pie. In both of these excellent books, they have techniques for building your own sourdough starter.

I have tried. Both times I ended up with sponges that were bubbling away, and smelled wonderful, but did not have the necessary leavening to actually make any bread rise. Needless to say, it is disappointing. So yesterday I decided to try, yet again. Only this time I brought in a secret helper from the homebrewing side, brewer’s yeast.

There’s a great company in San Diego called White Labs who produces vials of all kinds of yeast for beer making, and when I started my new batch of, er, starter, I threw in a vial of Kölsch yeast. Basically I had 2lbs of flour, 2lbs of water, and the extra brewer’s yeast. Things are looking bubbly, and I’ll keep you posted.

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