{"id":1309,"date":"2012-11-19T22:09:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T04:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2012-11-28T21:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T03:08:22","slug":"sourdough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Sourdough"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the few<\/strong> things I like about the Whole Foods Market,\u00a0 is their sourdough bread.\u00a0 They bake it right there in the store.\u00a0 It’s almost as good as what you can get in San Francisco.\u00a0 And some batches are superb.<\/p>\n

I stopped by after work to pick up a few things and on an impulse decided to ask a bakery worker if they sell their sourdough starter.\u00a0 Really, much to my surprise he said yes.\u00a0 He packaged up a dollop of dough for 99 cents and off I went.<\/p>\n

About 8 years ago, I spent a lot of time and effort trying to get my own starter going.\u00a0 And I did get it going and made dozens of loaves over a couple of month’s time.\u00a0 It eventually turned a shade of green and I discarded it.\u00a0 It’s hard work to keep sourdough alive and well.\u00a0 It requires regular feeding like any other creature.\u00a0 And warmth.<\/p>\n

Once I was home with my dollop of starter, I realized I didn’t have anything to keep it in.\u00a0 Even though I keep buying large canning jars, there’s never enough.\u00a0 After transferring my oatmeal into a plastic container, had a 2 quart jar that I could use.<\/p>\n

I’ve taken the starter and added some flour and water, stirred, and placed it into the jar.\u00a0 I covered the jar with several layers of paper towels and secured them with a rubberband.\u00a0 Cheesecloth would be better, but I don’t have any.\u00a0 I put the jar in a semi-warm place.\u00a0 Ideally it should be in the lower 80’s, but it’s in the mid-70’s.<\/p>\n

With any luck, I might have enough to make bread sometime this Thanksgiving weekend.\u00a0 I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.<\/p>\n

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One of the few things I like about the Whole Foods Market,\u00a0 is their sourdough bread.\u00a0 They bake it right there in the store.\u00a0 It’s almost as good as what you can get in San Francisco.\u00a0 And some batches are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[38,39,166],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creations","tag-bread","tag-cooking","tag-sourdough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}