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coraaI started some wild sourdough starter. I've never done wild-yeasted bread before, but I've made a lot of bread, so I'm prety excited about trying this.
This kind of sourdough is made by mixing water and flour and just... letting it sit. Instead of being yeasted with packaged yeast, the wild yeasts that live in the flour (and in the air, for that matter) will breed, as will lactobacilli. The yeast and lactobacilli keep one another in check, and the acidity produced both gives the final loaf its sour flavor and kills other, less desirable forms of little organism.
A well-established sourdough starter made from wild yeast is supposed to have a lovely taste, so here's hoping.
This kind of sourdough is made by mixing water and flour and just... letting it sit. Instead of being yeasted with packaged yeast, the wild yeasts that live in the flour (and in the air, for that matter) will breed, as will lactobacilli. The yeast and lactobacilli keep one another in check, and the acidity produced both gives the final loaf its sour flavor and kills other, less desirable forms of little organism.
A well-established sourdough starter made from wild yeast is supposed to have a lovely taste, so here's hoping.
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Date: 2006-05-10 06:15 am (UTC)