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Are you all ready for a good laugh? I've been trying with a starter for a for days now.

I just split it, and am trying to get some dough rising.

Wish me luck!

Luck

Looks like it's bubbling! 👍

Good stuff Richard.

Who said you can't teach an old dog, new tricks !

Thanks Paul, if all else fails, it might make a boat anchor!

Where is the yeast in the recipe, or does it make it's own?

That is the sourdough of it, I tried to get a starter going.

The starter is a yeast reservoir. Occasionally a little yeast is needed to get enough rise.

You can make black bread with a couple of substitutions.
Use 1/2 rye flour, add molasses, and if you want sub 1/2 the water with kefir milk.
The kefir will help with by adding yeast for to make it a bit more porous.
You can even add kefir to one of the sourdough splits when you feed it., so you will have an alternate more robust starter.
Rye flour is pretty dense. A couple knife cuts in the top allow for a little more rise while cooking.
From above you can also add caraway seed for more traditional rye bread. If you briefly fry the seed in oil for a minute before dumping it in the flour it helps bring out the flavor. You can omit the molasses or not in the rye bread, but you still need sugar to power the yeast.
You can go old school Central Europe if you add fried pancetta/ bacon to the basic black bread dough. Almost a chocolate chip cake, but a savory pork version.....

Wabigoon,

You cut a good looking loaf.
How was it?

Nice loaf!

My wife baled me out on that. It has a little tang, I might have waited another day on the starter, it was really making bubbles after I split it. The first time is not always the best.

Yeah, way to go Richard !

Nice job on the bread! I just split and fed mine last night and I'm going to make pizza dough this weekend.

Mike

Thanks Mike, I was thinking sourdough pancake in the morning, I need more starter however.

If I don't get bored, I hope the next bread is lighter.

Made sourdough bread earlier this week. I use a bread machine as I don't have the patience to knead and wait on rising.

My parents had a bread machine nicknamed R2D2 for its looks.

come and gitt

I must have let my starter get weak, the last loves would serve well as sledge hammer heads.

I store a split in the fridge. Last time I made some was at thanksgiving, as a proper turkey sandwich requires sourdough.

I needed to feed this on the counter for 4 days to get it up to speed. The first loaf usually needs a pinch of yeast to help. After getting the starter out of the fridge, I end up making 4 loaves (about 1 per day). We eat 1 and 4, while giving 2 neighbors 2 and 3.

needs margarine

That waz mean.

wuz not