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Making My First Sourdough Starter

Title (Dublin Core)

Making My First Sourdough Starter

Description (Dublin Core)

I decided to start making a sourdough starter a couple months into quarantine like just about everyone else. I had a fairly large stockpile of flour in my cupboards because I bake fairly often, so I didn't have to worry about dwindling supply at the supermarket too much. My grandma taught me how to bake from a pretty young age, and my mom made bread with an electric bread maker for years, but I'd never attempted my own loaf without a bread maker, let alone a sourdough starter. A starter always seemed like something out of reach and far too difficult for an inexperienced bread maker, but with armed with encouragement and tips from some friends via Discord, I set out to make my own. These are photos of my process, from my beginning mixture of flour and water to my first sourdough loaf (and my starter's permanent 'home'). I'm fairly proud of it. It took me about 2 weeks to get the starter to really start; I'm guessing in part because I only had all-purpose flour and not the suggested rye flour. There was a lot of troubleshooting involved before it really started to mature. It's been an interesting process, and I'm really glad I tried it. Starters are far more resilient than I had previous believed, and the bread is fantastic. It's been a somewhat calming respite from everything, even though I feel fairly selfish giving myself that with everything that's happening.

Date (Dublin Core)

May 20, 2020

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Food & Drink
English Health & Wellness

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

baking
grandma
mother
sourdough starter
respite
bread

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

food is life
foodways
baking
sourdough
starter

Collection (Dublin Core)

Foodways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/14/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/26/2020
08/10/2020
12/01/2020
08/02/2022
10/05/2024

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

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