After my Father passed away, my Mom remarried a Great Guy (He's now 88) and in one of our conversations
Sour Dough Bread came up. Well my Mom has a starter that belonged to my Stepfathers Grandmother.
SF's mother was born in 1872 and not sure when her mom was born. Well I Traded 40 lbs of smoked/grilled
meat for a cup of Heritage. I have not used it yet, but tomorrow is the day.
Starter as I got it. This is 1 cup in a sealed Qt jar.
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Poured into a plastic bowl and Stirred all up
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1 cup of water (warm), 1/2 cup of sugar, 1&1/2 cup of King Arthur Bread Flour. Mix well, no lumps,
and cover over nite. Non reactive bowl (plastic)
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More tomorrow.
Very cool CRG!
I have a starter that I have had for 4 years which is pretty cool because I can't keep a plant alive in my house ;D
Sourdough bread is the best! Looking forward to what you are making!
How cool is that!
Quote from: classicrockgriller on March 22, 2010, 11:25:04 PM
Well I Traded 40 lbs of smoked/grilled meat for a cup of Heritage
Holy smokes (pun intended) SOMEONE got a good deal ;) ;) ;) I hope that starter is REAL good!!!!
The suspense is killin me allready. ;D
I've tried makin bread before with no success, turned out like play dough.
Quote from: ExpatCanadian on March 23, 2010, 09:59:05 AM
Quote from: classicrockgriller on March 22, 2010, 11:25:04 PM
Well I Traded 40 lbs of smoked/grilled meat for a cup of Heritage
Holy smokes (pun intended) SOMEONE got a good deal ;) ;) ;) I hope that starter is REAL good!!!!
It's my Mom. I would have gave her more, but they eat like Birds.
A friend gave me some starter one time so I told my wife to use some to make pancakes with it. I came home and she had use all of it. I guess I should have wrote on it "DO NOT USE ALL OF THIS". That was the end of it. They were good pancakes though.
I have a batch of starter that I'm told is 100+ years old. When I got it I thought it was so old it would make stale bread but it turns out pretty good. I'm not sure what the big deal is on how old a starter is (other than bragging rights) but 138+ is definitely impressive.
I think it's kinda neat to have something that was started that long ago.
I replenisg my starter jar with a cup and took the rest and added:
1 1/2 cups of warm water
1/2 cup of sugar
1/2 Veg Oil
teaspoon of Salt
6 cups of KA Bread Flour
Mixed in KA with bread hook and into a greased bowl until double in size.
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Think I got started too late on this today. Gonna be baking bread at 11:00. Geez.
Howd the bread turn out?
The suspense is killin me. ;D
Just terrible, yuck!
They were terrably good and yucklicious!
After the mix doubled in size (about 4 hrs) I broke it down in to roll sizes.
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Set my alarm clock for early this morning and Bam! these were there.
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Into the Oven at 350* until brown (30 to 45 minutes)
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ClassicRockBaker!
Those look terrably good, you go brother.
This starter mix is different than my sour dough started.
Because it is sugar based it is sweeter and doesn't have that sour dough twang.
I ate 4 of them. Butter and fig preserves.
Right on classicrockgriller
Nothing better then the smell and taste of home made bread right out of the oven.
CRG your bread looks great! Now I'm not one to make sour dough bread but I do make Italian bread Dad passed to me years ago. I had a starter in the fridge I used for 1 year or so till the wife found it and thought it was a sci-project!! Yep tossed that puppy in the trash! :'(
I have not made bread since, but after reading this I will.
Quote from: TMB on March 24, 2010, 06:45:09 AM
CRG your bread looks great! Now I'm not one to make sour dough bread but I do make Italian bread Dad passed to me years ago. I had a starter in the fridge I used for 1 year or so till the wife found it and thought it was a sci-project!! Yep tossed that puppy in the trash! :'(
I have not made bread since, but after reading this I will.
Tommy, here's a link to some bread that Olds makes.
http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=12657.0
Here's a link to Free Sour Dough Starter from the Oregon Trail
http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=11623.0
Great thanks CRG, I'm always looking for new stuff to try. I guess that's why I weight in at 260 +.... LOL! ;)
Quote from: TMB on March 24, 2010, 09:22:21 AM
Great thanks CRG, I'm always looking for new stuff to try. I guess that's why I weight in at 260 +.... LOL! ;)
If I eat alot or starve myself I weigh the same, so I try to eat alot. ;D
Damn good looking rolls there CRG. Making burgers for them tonight?
Quote from: Tenpoint5 on March 24, 2010, 11:00:15 AM
Damn good looking rolls there CRG. Making burgers for them tonight?
Warming up some of that Chuckzilla. ;D