It was really delicious. I love making bread but have never done a sourdough starter and bread. It's been fun.

I had some starter years back. I am thinking of getting back into creating a starter again. It is the science of cooking that I love.

I have to live vicariously on thoughts of warm bread and butter these days, but my favorite is rosemary sourdough!

And it really isn't that hard! I used my dough cycle on the bread macine then the second rise was in the dutch oven. Bake with the lid on @420° for 30 minutes, then lid off for 20. Easy as pie. No wait, easier than pie!

Thanks for sharing!

And oh, yes! So delicious.

I keep meaning to try, but I read that you need to keep it at 75-80 degrees.

There are two states for sourdough starter, ‘keeping’, and ‘working’.

You can keep sourdough starter in the refrigerator for a week or more. So it’s fine withstanding temps in the 40s. Iff storing this way it’s best to ‘feed’ the starter and get it working again briefly every week or ten days. (Though a good starter can handle a few weeks unattended in the refer).

If you’re getting ready to bake, you have to get the starter working-rising and bubbling-by feeding it. That goes quickly at 75-80 degree ambient temperature. But it’s a time versus temp thing. At lower temperatures the starter will still work, it will just take longer. I get mine working by putting a newly fed batch in the oven with the oven light turned on. That usually provides enough warmth to get a good ‘work’ in two to three hours. If it’s cold outside I’ll put in a mug with hot water to heat the oven a little more. It’s fun tinkering with the combinations.

But, first, I boil a cup of water in there and leave it after it's boiled. I found out the hard way that if you use cold water and boil it in the microwave, it can explode! Use hot water because the surface tension of the cold water causes the water to get hotter under the surface and blammo! Water everywhere in the microwave. Lol, it was ok though because I needed to clean the microwave anyway.

and the Ingalls family always had sourdough starter in their house, no matter where they moved and lived. The word "sourdough" was never mentioned so when I got older I realized that they were making sourdough bread

I even went and reread them as an adult. Such an interesting life and that blizzard? Wow, I've lived in the south my whole life and have never seen snow deeper than 2 feet. I couldn't imagine living with snow 2 to 3 stories high!

in 2014 and then did a lot of research over the last few years and I have changed my opinion about the stories and author 100%, and not in a positive way.

delish. The only problem is if I look at a carbohydrate from 5 miles away I gain weight so I stopped making bread. Same with brewing beer. Fun while it lasted but I had to stop or grow to the size of a winnebago.
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It was recommended because it steams the bread first, then you remove the lid and bake for another 20 minutes to get that crunchy crust.

The starter is very forgiving.

recipes to explore as well...pancakes, crackers, cakes.

I'm currently making more sourdough pizza dough than bread, but once weather gets cooler bread will happen about every other week.

It's my creative outlet. I found a recipe for starter discard peanut butter cookies I'm going to try this weekend. After I make the authentic traditional sourdough bread without yeast. I am so glad I got the rye flour. Betty, my starter, absolutely rose to the occasion!

Go to the bakery and buy my 2 favorites.
Multigrain Sourdough and pumpernickel. Then always try to get some sour kraut on top.

Is it the elements? There are some really good videos on YouTube on changing them. I did it a couple of years ago and saved a lot of money. I bought the element on Amazon. Cost about fifty bucks.

Get a code 04. Found a video but not for the stove I have. Just got use to not having one. Keep saying we are going to get a new one.

I’ve tried a bunch of really good sourdough bread recipes, focusing on the ones that only use sourdough for the leaven. I was skeptical about the no-knead recipes available from King Arthur, Bob’s Red Mill, The Clever Carrot, etc. They’re all about exactly the same. Super easy and they work.

Then transferred it to the dutch oven to rise and bake. So easy!