My Sourdough Adventure with Cindoughrella

Working on Sour Dough Focaccia…about to do my third stretch and fold. 😃

Made the pancakes this morning. They were very good—batter may have been a little thin. 🥞 I forgot to take a picture. Every day forward I’ve been instructed to discard all but half of the starter, feed, wait to see if it’s doubled in size. If it has, it’s active and can be made into bread, if not feed again. I’m searching for more recipes to make with the discarded starter. https://pin.it/5NyX4V696 English Muffins

This is the recipe I’m gonna try. https://urbakicooking.com/sourdough-pancakes-turn-your-sourdough-discard-into-pancakes-so-fluffy/

 We’re getting to a critical point!  Per instructions: discard, feed, wait, and CONGRATULATIONS At this point, you probably have a fully active starter! How can you tell? 1. Bubbles. And 2. When you discard then feed it, it doubles in size over the next 6 to 8 hours. Note 1 See page 2 How to discard and feed For instructions for feeding on day seven and every day going forward. Note 2 Waking up to an overflowing starter jar messing up your kitchen is an important right of passage! Do not be mad at your starter. Note 3 After It doubles or triples it will gradually shrink again. This is normal. I transferred Cindoughrella to a 1 quart Pioneer Woman measuring cup so I could better gauge her growth. I can’t take a picture of her new home cause I used up all my edits. I’m going to try to bake tomorrow or the next day. I might try to make sour dough pancakes tomorrow.

 Instructions for day six: Add a half cup of flour up to a half cup of water, stir, back to the laundry room, This is easy, be patient! Not too many bubbles today but the ones present are bigger than in previous days. I might be able to bake tomorrow! 🤞

Glass shards which used to be a canister. As per instructions from Ken at Kensington Sourdough, i dumped half of my starter in the garbage bowl. Yikes! He warned me to be merciless. 😳 I then added 1 cup of flour and about 1/2 cup of water. (Instructions called for up to a cup, and that it should be somewhat hard to stir, so I stopped short of a cup. Today, I’m gonna let Cindoughrella rest by the French doors in my kitchen, Hoping it’ll be a little bit warmer than the laundry room. My instructions suggest that it rest in the oven with the light on, but alas, the light in my oven does not work. 💡 In spite of my inexperience, serious things are happening in my kitchen.  On a sidenote, I ordered two glass canisters to store my bread, flour and my rice flour from Walmart, which were delivered today in thousands of pieces.😡 Guess I’ll have to break down and go toWalmart in person.