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I have let my starters (I had 4 varieties) all perish. Sad, I know. But my 20 year old college son is home for the summer and he loves sourdough pancakes.

Does anyone have a starter that they would like to share? Interesting stories come with starters too. ie. How old they are, and where it came from etc.

I hear that one can simply put a couple of tablespoons of starter on wax paper and let dry in a warm dark place. Then the dry flakes can be mailed.

Sound interesting to anyone?

Thanks,

Mark

I also quit using mine, if I had some I would gladly send some.
If you don't get any responses I will check with some friends and see if anyone has some to send.

try this link

http://carlsfriends.net/

You can make starter with 1 package of active dry yeast dissolved in warm water (2 cups) then add 2 cups of flour and mix in a glass bowl. Keep in in a warm place for about a week and if it smells and looks decent (normal colored) You should be good to go. When you take some out put an equal amount back in with the exception of the yeast. Give this a try if you don't want to wait for anyone to send some. I find it works well with most sourdough recipes. I use unbleached flour for all my baking-Mike

Another easy way to make a good starter is to boil a potato and pour the warm potato water into a glass bowl. Add a couple of cups of all purpose flour and perhaps a tablespoon of sugar. Stir. Cover the bowl with cheesecloth and let stand on your kitchen cabinet top for two or three days. Won't be long until you'll have a fine sourdough starter.

L.W.

There's a jillion sour dough recipes out there & everyone's is the best. For 40 years I've used 1 cup flour, 1 cup warm water, a tsp of dry yeast & 1/2 tsp sugar. We don't use it as much as we used to with all the kids gone so I make a fresh one the night before when they show up.

Dick

Making a new starter is easy... flour, water, a little yeast plus some sugar (not too much) and in a few days or a week, that's your new "sourdough mother".

I always made a fairly large amount of "sourdough mother" so when I used a lot of it in recipes or pancakes for some of my 13 Grandkids who stayed over-night,, there was enough of the original "starter" left to make enough new "mother" to be almost immediately usable again.

The Grandkids LOVED to help make sourdough pancakes... or make 'em ALL themselves after they got old enough. My one Granddaughter (now in college) told me that she has many happy memories of those time we made "pancakes" together and, eventually, when she made them all by herself.

She and a couple of other "Grands" came down and stayed over-night after playing a game or two of Monopoly (the game we played when she was little) a few months ago... and she GRINNED her head off, the next morning, while sitting at the kitchen table, stirring up some new pancake batter (sans the sourdough "mother" because I got tired of "feeding" it and messing with it) for some tasty home-made pancakes. She was remembering all those times she did the SAME thing when she was much, much younger.

I wonder how many other people are as "lucky" as me to have the "nice memories" of our Grandkids talking and laughing while making sourdough pancakes at Grandpa's & Grandma's house after an "over-nighter"?!?

Yeah... I know... this is "off-subject", but that's ok 'cause us OLD GUYS are "allowed" to talk. nostalgically, about "the good ol' days"...


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Ron T.