Had some Bodine's sourdough last week and man0man was that good stuff. So I thought I would try making some sourdough. First I bought the boxed sourdough stuff for our bread maker and although it was tasty, it was just bread. Not nearly sourdough-like... So I decided to make some sourdough from scratch and the fetching one told me I need a starter. A starter what? I thought. She then explained about making a sourdough starter with it catching yeast from the air and over the next week or so I would hopefully have my starter............. So I found instructions for making a starter and mixed up the flour and water and let it sit.... After about four or five days my slightly bubbly mixture went flat. No bubbles....nothing.... So thinking it died I tossed it out and looked for more starter recipes.
I found two more that called for using Rye flour for the start. Once recipe called for making the flour fresh, so the fetching one went to the health store and bought Rye grain (berries). So I tossed some of the Rye grain into the mill and made the flour. Now I've got two different batches of starter going...... I trust these won't be strikes 2 & 3...... to be continued
