I need to get my hands on a good sour dough bread starter!?!
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I'd like to help you, but I can't!. I had Sourdough Jack's starter for several years!. Through several moves, I lost it!. And Sourdough Jack is dead now, so it's no longer available!.
The best I can tell you is to take your chances on starting a wild yeast!. Go to a produce market and get some fresh grapes!. You want the ones that look like they've been dipped in chalk dust!. And get ones you like to eat!. Take about 1 and a half cups of AP flour and add 1/2 to 2/3 cup water!. Wash the grapes, but don't rub the chalky coating off them!. Drop 10 of them into the water/flour mixture!. You can eat the rest of the grapes!. After around 12 hours, remove the 10 grapes from your starter!. Let it go for a day, then refrigerate!.
Explanation: There's good yeast everywhere in the air!. There's also bad yeast!. When you mixed flour and water, you provided "food" for yeast!. When you put the grapes in the mixture, you nearly guaranteed that "good" yeast would take over!. Now smell your starter!. Does it have a yeasty, earthy aroma!? If so, it's good!. Or does it smell nasty!? If so, dump it out and start again!. (I hope you saved at least 10 grapes!.)Www@FoodAQ@Com
The best I can tell you is to take your chances on starting a wild yeast!. Go to a produce market and get some fresh grapes!. You want the ones that look like they've been dipped in chalk dust!. And get ones you like to eat!. Take about 1 and a half cups of AP flour and add 1/2 to 2/3 cup water!. Wash the grapes, but don't rub the chalky coating off them!. Drop 10 of them into the water/flour mixture!. You can eat the rest of the grapes!. After around 12 hours, remove the 10 grapes from your starter!. Let it go for a day, then refrigerate!.
Explanation: There's good yeast everywhere in the air!. There's also bad yeast!. When you mixed flour and water, you provided "food" for yeast!. When you put the grapes in the mixture, you nearly guaranteed that "good" yeast would take over!. Now smell your starter!. Does it have a yeasty, earthy aroma!? If so, it's good!. Or does it smell nasty!? If so, dump it out and start again!. (I hope you saved at least 10 grapes!.)Www@FoodAQ@Com
Try the starter from cooks!.com given below!. It worked well for me a couple years ago!. Now I'm just lazy and buy it from a wonderful relatively new bakery down the street!. In fact, I was there today!Www@FoodAQ@Com
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