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sour taste in sourdough bread

Lobo <lobo119@att.net>
Sun, 10 Jun 2001 12:03:20 -0600
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Here's how to get that sour taste in your sourdough bread.

Pick an extremely busy week to bake, with only after 5 hours to do it and
at least one social engagement during one of the evenings.

1. Remove starter from refrigerator and add flour and water.  Let sit 
overnight.

2. Because you sleep late the next morning and don't have an extra 15 
minutes to mix your bread recipe, throw another cup of flour and some water 
into the starter and go to work.

3. That evening after your social engagement, mix up part of your bread recipe:
       The required amount of starter
       liquid
       sugar and salt
       enough of the flour to make a muffin batter consistency.
       Put your remaining starter back in the refrigerator and go to bed.

4. Get up 10 minutes early and add the shortening and rest of the flour to 
the bread.  Knead, throw a dishtowel over the bowl and go to work.

5. As soon as you get home after 5, form loaves and let them rise.  Figure 
out what time you have to go to bed and put the bread in the oven 45 
minutes before that no matter how little it's risen.

WARNING:  These could be bricks, but they'll be REALLY sour bricks!