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Journal Shadow Wrought's Journal: Sourdough Flour^H^H^H^H^H Bread 4

Journal by Shadow Wrought
Well I tried the sourdough recipe and all I can say is that it would be really nice to be posting something along the lines of what GeckoFood posts when it comes to bread. Alas, this is not me. here is my sourdough diary from last night:
  • (1900 PST) My wife points out that the sourdough starter that is supposed to get get sour in three days is finally sour (it was started a week ago).
  • (2030 PST) After much humming and hawing and wee bit of dinner (Applebee's bonelesss buffulo tenders- yum!) decide to go ahead and start sourdough recipe from Wooden Spoon Bread Book (since its due the next day at La Biblioteca (which sounds cooler than "The Library").
  • (2035 PST) Proof yeast. I have never done this before, so I'm not entirely sure what to look for. I have the warm water ("Warm wine?" - inside joke), yeast, and sugar in the bowl and I'm watching it for "foam." I notice that on the edges it looks like there's a faint bit of foaming, and I wonder if that's it. Consult book. It seems to think that proofing is blindingly obvious, so perhaps I am just blind. Time to stare some more. FOOM! Out of the nowhere, well technically I guess the middle of the bowl, this cloud of foam just erupts and spreads across the whole shebang. Super fsckin' cool! Share coolness with wife.
  • (2045 PST) Add starter and other bits as called for before first rise. Realize that the larger wooden sppon is much more helpful than the small one. The first of many, many lessons.
  • (2055 PST) Take puppy dogs for walk while waiting for dough to rise. This has nothing to do with the dough, but... There was a ring around the Moon through cirrus clouds that was amazingly cool and serene to look at. Indeed, it fringed on the magical. Share with family and discover that the German word for the phenomenon is hof- incorporate latter into a Haiku on bus ride to work.
  • (2150 PST) Begin mixing flour into sponge. Realize too late that when the book says "mix in the flour a little at a time" it does not mean "one cup at a time."
  • (2230 PST) Give up on spoon and attempt to mix flour in by hand. Repeat ad infinitum.
  • (2315 PST) With all the flour finally in and (mostly) incorporated, let the dough rest. Begin knitting scarf for Aunt.
  • (2335 PST) Divide dough into fourths as indicated by recipe. Go to add to round pans, again per recipe, to let rise. Discover a) that we only have 3 pans and b) that only 3 pans fit in oven simulateously. D'oh! Take smallest quarter, divide into thirds, and add a third to each of the other doughballs. Struggle with overly floury dough and convince self that the forthcoming rising step will somehow alleviate this problem.
  • (2350 PST) Allow doughballs to rise, even though they are flaking into large slabs. Hope that the next hour makes them better. Continue to abet denial of dough problem through knitting and watching Moden Marvels: Concrete on History Channel.
  • (0050 PST) With initial hope destroyed by the failure of the rising to fix the flaking problem, it's time to engage emergency back-up hope unit- baking it will fix the flake issue! Continue denial by knitting.
  • (0130 PST) Remove ugly, snarled loaves from oven. Initialize final hope crushing procedures. Suck at Madden NFL 2003 on GC while waiting for loaves to cool enough to place in plastic.
  • (0150 PST) Complete Madden NFL 2003 suckage against Iggles on Two-Minute drill, place loaves in plastic. Mistakenly return to GC isntead of bed.
  • (0230 PST) Go to bed after taking out baking frustrations on CPU level 9's in Super Smash Brothers Melee.
  • (0600 PST) Alarm goes off. Futz with heater in bathroom and "Snooze" for a bit.
  • (0645 PST) Sample fruits of previous night's labors. Discover crust to be "technically" edible (tastes like crunchy, chewy flour), but even the dog has trouble chewing on a small piece. Inside part tastes neither bad, nor like sourdough. With final final hopes firmly destroyed, feel sorry for self. Kick self in ass for being stupid, begin plans for "Next Time..."

Soo... Anyone want some bread?

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  • okay... since you shared that story... and i wouldn't feel too bad... baking bread isn't easy. if it was, everyone would. and well... as for gecko, he's special :)

    anyway... since you shared that story... i'll share the quick story of how i blacked out half my parent's house changing a light bulb. i still don't know how i did it... but i was replacing a light bulb in the basement... wasn't paying exact attention... and it was screwing in a bit off... i twisted it too tight... it broke... some metal came into

  • Don't give up! If you saved some of the starter for the next batch and you have been feeding it and doing what you need to do to it, you will notice as you continue to work with it that the starter gets stronger. When I last made sourdough, the first batch I made tasted like white bread and I felt like I had put in a lot of effort for nothing. The second batch was better but not quite there. It finally came into its own on the third generation, when the starter was a rather potent slurry that would make yo

    • Unfortunately, it was a one off sourdough recipe, so the whole of the starter is incorporated. I will, however, be checking out the Wooden Spoon Bread Book again after the holidays, and I know my next batch will be better;-) There is something just very cool about making something that takes so much time. It hard to explain, but I really get a kick out of it. I think it would be cool to build an outdoor brick oven someday, too, so once I get these recipes down I can better justify trying to do that.

      Ke

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