Love sour dough soup bowls! Form dough into single serving round bread..cut out the inside leaving some bread with the crust on sides and add your soup or stew! Bread absorbs some of the soup and take the inside bread you took out and dip in soup! Then eat the whole thing! Yummy 😋
Love it! My starter is around 6 years old now! Use it every week. Feed it every week. It was fine when we were away for 2 weeks. I use white flour for the starter and whole wheat for the bread. 😉🇨🇦
We are gonna try this today. We just canned some butter ( we watched all of joes videos on it 😊) now we wanna try this. Y’all are my go to on these kinda things love the videos especially the canning
Melissa Im so glad you posted this! I’m running out of yeast and I looked at several different videos of how to do a starter but they were all different and I trust you so I’ll try your method (only hopefully I won’t forget it 😂😂😂)!!
Sorry Melissa I tried it once but discovered I have no patience to keep feeding it, luckily I have a very good friend whose husband makes sourdough bread and makes me a loaf which is amazing...thanks Melissa...
This is just to get it started, once its started you will be using the discard regularly...well, if you bake regularly. Once the starter has started you put it in the fridge and just feed once a week to keep it going
Say “ I was seriously slacking on sourdough starter “ five times fast ;) In Canada we are also experiencing gaps in bakers yeast and flour, I love toasted sourdough bread with jam :)
I am handycaped so my husband is learning how to move on more with learning how to cook and bake . I want him to try making bread and I love sourdough bread. I hope this will not be to hard for him to do...cross your fingers for him. I love to watch you and Joe on what you two do on the farm and you sure have made things look so beautiful with hard work . I love the two kids Joni & Chunk,they are both so darn cute . How many cats do you have ..I love cats to . Well stay well ,be happy & God Bless ...see you soon on your vidos .....Jan from Northern Arizona
Hi Jan! The sourdough starter is very simple to get started. I hope hubby had good success with it. We have probably 9 or 10 cats. I was fostering for a rescue who didnt come back for the cats and I just couldn't bring them to a shelter. That was about 8 years ago. Needless to say we dont have a mouse problem!
I have fructose malabsorption and sour dough bread is a variety that I can eat! So I will think about beginning the starter for sour dough. As we are heading into winter we are running our gas heater every day so I can put it near the heater.
You can also put it in your oven with the light on and the door cracked open with a wooden utensil. This will help you not start your oven with the starter inside
I started with a half gallon glass jar so alleviated one issue. I’m on my 4th day and it’s hot outside. I put it on the patio and am going to sneak up to day 6 now. Gotta watch you again tomorrow. It got so tall.
Hi Melissa, I'm enjoying your videos. I have a question about the starter. Do you have to use wheat flour to start it? I never buy anything other than all purpose flour, just wondering if it would work if you use all purpose from the beginning.
My brain is poor and I use my phone as my memory set a date and time for feeding and the alarm will go off and you'll be reminded with a note on your phone.
you can use a heating pad and you don't have to use wheat flour but wheat flour has a lot of natural yeast in it. Using just all purpose flour will take a lot longer for the sourdough to grab the yeast in the air.
Could you use wax paper instead of the coffee filters? I would think it would not stick like the filters. I am not sure I have the patience or the memory to make this lol.
Keep in mind that the amount of flour you feed should equal the starter you're feeding so if you have 2 cups of starter you need to feed with 2 cups of flour and 2 cups of water. This would yield 6 cups of starter. So the next feeding would need, you guessed it, 6 cups of flour. This is why we either discard or remove only what we need for a particular recipe and feed that putting the rest in the fridge until the next bake.
It took a room temp of about 70 degrees until it got started, I have since moved it to the countertop in the kitchen and it stays about 65 in there and it does fine. Once it kicks in you can put it in the fridge and feed it once a week. The amount of starter you use depends on the recipe, a lot say a half cup.
you can but whole wheat has a lot of natural yeast already in it, it will take longer for all purpose as it will have to catch the yeast out of the air to start.
Friendship cake has sugar in the starter which is what makes it different from regular sourdough starter. I think I will try my hand at this sourdough starter since I like sourdough bread so much. Doing the friendship cake has me trained to feed a starter so this should be easy for me to do.
@@astheroostercrows6435 Oh okay. I've always been afraid of sourdough starters because I would forget to feed it but I'm going to try it out. Thanks for your recipe Melissa :-)
