Yeasted Sourdough
Meet Herman!
One day in December, Bob brought home Herman. Yes, I named my sourdough starter. I figure if I’m gonna feed it and clean its “cage,” I need to name it. I am considering knitting him a frankenstein-looking cover. LOL!
Step 1: In mixer bowl combine; then mix well on the “2″ setting.
- 1C sourdough starter
- 1 1/2C warm water (distilled)
- 1T honey
- 1C bread flour
- 2t SAF yeast
Step 2: let “sponge” for 15 - 20 minutes
Step 3: Add to mixer bowl; incorporate flour a little at a time until dough is only a bit tacky
- 1T dough enhancer
- 1T olive oil
- 2t salt
- 4 - 5 1/2C bread flour (no more!)
Step 4: Kneed on speed 2 for 6 - 8 minutes using a little more oil as needed to keep the dough from sticking. Shape into loaves or what ever you’d like and let rise for one hour or until double.
Step 5: Bake on 425 until it passes the “thump” test.
Notes:
- Bread flour makes a huuuuuge difference!
- Dough enhancer really does help.
- This is not a strong sourdough taste.
- It does not have that crunchy sourdough crust.
- It is like a regular loaf of bread with a little bit of sourdough flavor.
- It does not bother my skin as much as 100% commercial yeast bread.
- It makes AWESOME pizza dough
January 4th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Have you ever heard of starting your own wild yeast culture, to use for your bread?
Maybe the wild yeast you’ve been living with for the last 1.5 years and you have come to an agreement, immunologically speaking, so they too will not be as problematic for your yeast allerigies. Maybe you could start a yeast zoo, with exoitc critters.
Also, do you have any reactions to beer? Home brew vs. commercial?
I sooooo love reading about cooking experiments. Thanks for sharing!!!
January 15th, 2008 at 1:10 am
I’m wondering what “dough enhancer” is?
I’m actually thinking about seeing if a friend of mine will share some of his sourdough starter with me. If not I’ll make some of my own as I’d love to get into making sourdough bread and I know my kids would love to learn how to make sourdough pancakes as well.
Do you have an update on your cat? I just read about your Christmas and your cat having kidney trouble. Take care.
January 15th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Hi Elaine! Nice to meet you.
Dough enhancers can improve the texture, taste and crust of the bread. I have only started using it myself and it does seem to be helping. It also seems to me (from reading the bag ingredient label) that “bread flour” is regular flour with “dough enhancer” added in. But I have used bread flour with dough enhancer and gotten some really great loaves!