Thursday Thirteen : Sourdough Bread
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I love baking bread. I have since I was a little girl. I like the feeling of holding an entire universe in my hands. I thought I’d share my love of bread making with you!
Thursday Thirteen #30
Sourdough bread that is!
Facts
1. All bread was made with “wild yeast” prior to 1950s. In the 1950′s brewers yeast became commercially available as bread yeast. Of course, brewer’s yeast was never intended to rise bread.
2. People coveted their yeast. They bought their yeast when they emigrated to the United States. Sourdough arrived in the West via wagon train.
3. Every line of sourdough is different, and depending on how it’s treated, changes as it lives in your home.
What is sourdough?
4. Wild yeast is naturally occurring yeast. When people say, “wild yeast” they mean “not brewer’s yeast”.
5. Sourdough starter is a mixture of yeast and bacteria cultures (similar to those in yogurt).
How does it work?
6. I received a starter for free in the mail. (It looks like powdered milk!) I reconsituted the starter and let it grow.
7. I keep the starter in a pyrex dish in the refrigerator. When I am going to use it, I take out a 1/4 cup, add water and flour, and leave it over night. If I don’t bake one week, I just feed the starter.
8. Because I like to make a lot of bread at once, I usually create starter over the course of a number of days.
9. Almost any bread recipe can be converted to sourdough. There’s a million great recipes at Sourdough Home.
Why make bread?
10. There is a large body of research that suggests that food changes properties depending on how it’s created and who creates it. For example, blessed wine actually tastes better. I create the bread with love – I think you can taste it.
11. Sourdough is easier on the human body than brewer’s yeast.
12. I can control the ingredients in my bread – I use organic flour from an employee owned mill. I use sea salt and olive oil. I also filter the water. These high quality ingredients create a high quality product.
13. Now it’s your turn. What do you love to bake? Leave your favorites in the comments and I’ll add them to this post.
- Michelle at My Crazy Life with a Toddler bakes bread when she makes homemade soup – usually in the fall and winter.
- Miss Sarah at Puss Reboots bakes “soda breads, biscuits and pies mostly.”
- Sandy Carlson “love(s) to bake cookies–any kind at all.”
- FuriousBall baked himself in college.
- Shaunesay bakes break in her bread machine.
- Briggie says, “When I got married (many many many years ago) my Mom gave me a Betty Crocker cookbook and there is a recipe for Casserole Bread. I love making it because it?s so easy, lots of variations and everyone loves it.”
- Colleen “used to bake my son a blueberry pie for his birthday each year.”
- Jameil “can bake anything following a recipe. If peach cobbler is considered baking but i make mine with crust from scratch and people always rave over it. it?s sooo easy, though.”
- Popping Bubbles says, “Cookies and cupcakes are my usuals, but lately I have been baking these fantastic loaves of Artisan bread.”
- Grace in Dubai “love(s) to bake chiffon cake because it?s easy and my husband loves it.”
- Winter “make(s) Irish soda bread and baking powder biscuits. Sometimes cookies and brownies.”
- Odat makes ?no bake? cheesecake.
- Adelle Lauden “make(s) my own bread as well, but I mix and rise in the bread maker. Much easier on the hands. I bake it in the oven thought”
- Alice Audrey has “a bread machine and just toss(es) things in willy-nilly.”
- Sassy Mama Bear says, “Actually my husband is the big baker in the family and I am going to share this with him as he has wanted to start baking sourdough. He makes the best cinnamon rolls ever.
I bake mainly cookies and cakes.” - Darla “love(s) baking bread?kneading is a great stress reliever?and experimenting with changing the recipes.”
- Jennifer McKenzie “love(s) making my own bread. I have dinner rolls I?ve started making with whole wheat flour and sea salt. They?re awesome!!!!”
- Hazelnut says, “Being Scottish, I really do bake oat scones, lots of butter, eat warm with a drizzle of honey, great with a pot of tea.”
- Los Angelista says, “I know how to bake a fabulous apple crisp and I also can bake a delicious coffee cake.”
- When CEO baked, “my favorite was baking an old fashioned sour cream chocolate cake with old fashioned sour cream chocolate icing, just like the turn of the 20th Century.”
- Mary Alice says, “I bake bread as well, but not as often as my mother did. I like to make my own dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls, cakes and pies.”
- Heart in SF says, “I bake pies, quick breads and cookies all the time but would love to begin making my own bread again. I?ve made French baguette and also honey whole wheat bread, but not for a long time.”
- Melanie “love(s) to bake cookies.”
- Michelle says, “I am on a mission to become the mom who makes the best chocolate cookies in the neighborhood. Practicing is fun.”
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