Sour dough Part 2

We made it to the final part of the sour dough saga! We were at about day 7 last I left off with the pictures. We continued to leave our starters (properly named Stinky and Roger) on the counter and fed them every 12 hours for almost 3 weeks. As a side note, I thought it was weird that the girls wanted to name the starters…apparently its common and not strange! Sooo……We decided to get into the process of actually making bread with stinky first. He had the most rise and Natalie was adamant about hers going first. We discarded about half of stinky right into a pan of hot olive oil. I placed everything bagel seasoning and sea salt on that baby and let it get crispy, flipped it and crisped the other side. NOMMMNOMMMM!

Stinky was fed and we let it rise for about 4 hours. We followed the Pro Home Cooks sourdough flexbake schedule for the rest of our process. What’s amazing about his schedules is that there is one that will suite your kitchen. https://www.sourdoughu.com/thanks-page-recipes?cf_uvid=dafe5369759c6d7f633e80bd5f26bc61 Clink on the link to download all 5 of his schedules.

after it was sitting in a bowl to bulk rise

This is going to be so anticlimactic for you but, I lost the pictures of the final product. I can tell you it was delish, ( I ate half the loaf my self). The second one we did, I forget it was in there so the outside was a little crispy but, the kids devoured the middle! I did forget to score both which I think caused it not to rise as much. Nonetheless, WE MADE BREAD!

What else can you do with sourdough you ask? WELL…….We made blueberry muffins. The recipe we were using called for cornmeal and we thought grits would be an ok substitute. The taste was great, the crunch of the grits was interesting. Next time, we will use flour instead.

My oldest made sourdough biscuits too…..YUMMMMMM… We had some homemade fig jam in the fridge that the hubby made so, I whipped that out with some butter and went to town.