Bread Starter 138 years old Plus.

[classicrockgriller]

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.



Poured into a plastic bowl and Stirred all up



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)



More tomorrow.

[deb415611]

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!

[squirtthecat]

How cool is that!   

[ExpatCanadian]

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!!!!

[OU812]

The suspense is killin me allready.  ;D

I've tried makin bread before with no success, turned out like play dough.

[classicrockgriller]

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.

[Quarlow]

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.

[Ka Honu]

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.

[classicrockgriller]

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.



Think I got started too late on this today. Gonna be baking bread at 11:00. Geez.

[OU812]

Howd the bread turn out?

The suspense is killin me.  ;D

[classicrockgriller]

Just terrible, yuck!

[OU812]

Just terrible, yuck!

REALLY?

[classicrockgriller]

They were terrably good and yucklicious!

After the mix doubled in size (about 4 hrs) I broke it down in to roll sizes.





Set my alarm clock for early this morning and Bam! these were there.





Into the Oven at 350* until brown (30 to 45 minutes)

[squirtthecat]

ClassicRockBaker!

[OU812]

Those look terrably good, you go brother.