michael-in-phoenix
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...a living starter when I finally rehydrated it. Here are excerpts from a FB post I made this week:
I bought this book a couple of decades ago, at my favorite used bookstore. It’s a paperback copy of “Adventures In Sourdough Cooking And Baking” by Charles D. Wilford.
I believe this edition was printed and issued in 1977!
It came with a little 1.5 ounce packet of dried sourdough starter.
I’ve decided to hydrate the starter and see if it will return to life from its long sleep in suspended animation.
I mixed it as instructed in the book. I used unbleached AP flour and non-chlorinated purified water, so the chlorine doesn’t kill the starter.
I’ll let you know if it comes alive or not.
If it does, this fall and winter’s baking and cooking will be fun!
A few days later, and we have viable starter!
Yeast bread starter that is 47 years old IS ALIVE and WELL, and living an active life in my fridge.
The powder packet in that nearly 50-year-old book was/is still viable!!
I bought this book a couple of decades ago, at my favorite used bookstore. It’s a paperback copy of “Adventures In Sourdough Cooking And Baking” by Charles D. Wilford.
I believe this edition was printed and issued in 1977!
It came with a little 1.5 ounce packet of dried sourdough starter.
I’ve decided to hydrate the starter and see if it will return to life from its long sleep in suspended animation.
I mixed it as instructed in the book. I used unbleached AP flour and non-chlorinated purified water, so the chlorine doesn’t kill the starter.
I’ll let you know if it comes alive or not.
If it does, this fall and winter’s baking and cooking will be fun!
A few days later, and we have viable starter!
Yeast bread starter that is 47 years old IS ALIVE and WELL, and living an active life in my fridge.
The powder packet in that nearly 50-year-old book was/is still viable!!
