Cooking thread, anyone?

[EatenByLimestone]

I have not done sourdough. Most of my yeast breads have been rye and wheat… and pizza dough!

 

[NickW]

Cinnamon bread?

Amish cinnamon bread (or Amish friendship bread).

Someone gives you a baggie of starter mix, you let it sit on the counter for 5 days squeezing it daily, day 5 you add some ingredients and squeeze & mix it up, let it sit another 3 days squeezing & mixing daily, day 8 you make 4 starters to give to friends with a copy of the directions and use the balance to make your bread. I found a "finishing" recipe that bypasses making more starters because at some point nobody wants starters anymore. I freeze my starters now and day 1 is the day I take it out of the freezer, every 4th batch I make new starters (unless I gave some away).

 

[Whitenuckler]

Amish cinnamon bread (or Amish friendship bread).

Someone gives you a baggie of starter mix, you let it sit on the counter for 5 days squeezing it daily, day 5 you add some ingredients and squeeze & mix it up, let it sit another 3 days squeezing & mixing daily, day 8 you make 4 starters to give to friends with a copy of the directions and use the balance to make your bread. I found a "finishing" recipe that bypasses making more starters because at some point nobody wants starters anymore. I freeze my starters now and day 1 is the day I take it out of the freezer, every 4th batch I make new starters (unless I gave some away).

I keep my starter in the fridge. Somewhere here I posted what I do. Basically I take it out of the fridge the day before, make a "Sponge", then put the freshened started back into the fridge. I travelled 1800km with my starter when I moved.

 

[NickW]

I found starter recipe's with a Google search if anyone wants to make their own starter. Some didn't have yeast, but my understanding of how it works a yeast starter would be better.

I can post my recipe for the bread process if anyone wants it. I rewrote the instructions I got years ago with a starter from my SIL with lots of notes, tips, and the finishing recipe so you don't have a million starters in the freezer (or fridge).

 

[Whitenuckler]

I found starter recipe's with a Google search if anyone wants to make their own starter. Some didn't have yeast, but my understanding of how it works a yeast starter would be better.

I can post my recipe for the bread process if anyone wants it. I rewrote the instructions I got years ago with a starter from my SIL with lots of notes, tips, and the finishing recipe so you don't have a million starters in the freezer (or fridge).

I struggled to make my own starter during covid. It took me a couple of months. What worked was using the purest fresh whole wheat flour or unbleached white. Then it called for some pineapple juice. The acidity supposedly aids the natural yeast in growing. Since I keep everything, I probably have the recipe but probably 50/50 mix with some pineapple juice and a warm spot, then feed it every 24 hours....

 

[begreen]

This just popped out of the oven.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

My daughter and her boyfriend are cooking dinner for us. They’re browning hamburger for tacos… only it’s frozen.

The smoke alarm went off. I hear my daughter say, “whatever” and she keeps pushing an ice ball around the frying pan.

I took the smoke detector down. This could get interesting.

He works at a sandwich shop a couple blocks away. Will I be ordering sandwiches?

 

[EatenByLimestone]

That looks great BG! I thought about making a soda bread today, but didn’t have and butter or milk.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

Tacos were pretty good! Lol