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.

 Add 1/2 cup flour and up to 1/2 cup water.  My instructions from Kensington Flour say, “Say something pleasant to your starter.” As soon as I fed her, I told Cindoughrella that she was doing great and to try to make lots of big bubbles today. 😃 We’ll see how the day goes. Today she’s gonna hang out in the microwave with the light on while the laundry 🧺 room is busy.😁🍞 New additions to the supplies

 So far so good! Stir in 1/2 cup of all purpose, flour and up to a half a cup of pure, lukewarm water, stirring thoroughly. Cover and put back in laundry room. Easy Peasy! New supplies today: rice flour for dusting proofing basket, beeswax wraps, and beeswax bags.

 All I had to do today was stir vigorously! Mission accomplished!

 So, it all started because I needed delicious dense bread to dip in my olive oil and seasonings from Greece. After I tried several store-bought and local bakery breads, it was obvious that I needed to make sourdough bread, even though I really had no idea what that meant.I began by researching online how to start a sourdough project. Then, I started accumulating what I thought were the necessary ingredients and tools. After I had invested a significant amount of money and stuff, that it turns out I don’t really need. I learned that the gold prospectors in California in 1850 did not need any of the stuff I had purchased. Since I knew it would be several days before I could even start a starter, I began by making what I hoped would be bread bags coated with beeswax and jojoba oil. I bought a pack of linen and napkins, and started sewing up bags. I found cute Cricut Design Space Sourdough images. My first attempt at applying the cute image resulted in the design being backwards. Not ...