I made a sour dough starter yesterday intending to try out a new bread recipe today. The book recommended keeping it in a warm spot overnight and the oven with the light on was suggested as a suitable place.
I went to use it today and it had exploded all over the oven! Well, not all over. The plastic cover had been pushed off, the sides of the jar were coated with dried on dough and there was a large pancake shape on the bottom of the oven. Obviously it needed to be in a bigger container.
I managed to save about half a cup and added more flour, water and sugar (that, with yeast, is basically all it is) and returned it to the oven in a bigger jar. Luckily I checked it an hour later and it had almost filled the jar again! It seems to have a life of its own.
Thought I'd better make a loaf in case it kept growing so used half of it and stored the rest in the fridge. That should discourage it from overflowing again. I made a garlic loaf so that at least will be tasty. More tomorrow.
Ooops! Hope it wasn't too messy to clean up.
ReplyDeleteI'll need to clean the oven at some point but it came up quite easily, thank goodness!
DeleteI hope that your starter behaves itself now. Oh yum to garlic bread. I was able to get some yeast on Monday but it's a block & as I've never used I'll need to read up how to chop, cut up in the correct amount. I felt the library re-opening to curbside pick ups only was such a blessing, it has been the library I have missed the most. ... Mary-Lou =^[..]^=
ReplyDeleteMe too! I've changed my holds to a branch that does have curbside pickup so I should start getting books soon. Luckily I had a few books at home that I hadn't read or could read again.
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