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Hey friends, I am new here and excited to be part of the community, hope to pick up some tips.
I love historic recipes, and have a killer sourdough starter. It started with the Carl Griffith 1847 source (which BTW you can send away for just for the cost of postage, and you should be kind enough to give a donation from these good people https://carlsfriends.net/), but I've been maintaining it for 14 years now, and it is robust! If anyone wants a clone of mine, just let me know, I can figure out how to make it work!
So sourdough is kind of simple, flour salt and water, what seems to vary is baking technique, timing, shapes, methods.
I did during Hurricane Helene when we had no power for several weeks, thus no refrigerator, to keep my starter fed and happy pretty much get in a daily baking cycle around my 8-4 job teaching, a wood fire, and a Dutch oven. We had a cool barter economy as my lovely Hispanic neighbors had a roasting pit going and would trade me fresh bread for roasted meat, and the rednecks on the other side of my property had a propane boil pot and usually had veggies going, I actually ate kind of better than I usually do.
My basic bread dough and process is half a civil war recipe for marching bread, and well, owes a lot to Dariana Allen's cookbooks. Should I post it just in forum or is there a separate recipe section?
Anyway wondering if any of you have any cool historic recipes for me to try out, not just sourdough, but overall.
Cheers and happy baking.
I love historic recipes, and have a killer sourdough starter. It started with the Carl Griffith 1847 source (which BTW you can send away for just for the cost of postage, and you should be kind enough to give a donation from these good people https://carlsfriends.net/), but I've been maintaining it for 14 years now, and it is robust! If anyone wants a clone of mine, just let me know, I can figure out how to make it work!
So sourdough is kind of simple, flour salt and water, what seems to vary is baking technique, timing, shapes, methods.
I did during Hurricane Helene when we had no power for several weeks, thus no refrigerator, to keep my starter fed and happy pretty much get in a daily baking cycle around my 8-4 job teaching, a wood fire, and a Dutch oven. We had a cool barter economy as my lovely Hispanic neighbors had a roasting pit going and would trade me fresh bread for roasted meat, and the rednecks on the other side of my property had a propane boil pot and usually had veggies going, I actually ate kind of better than I usually do.
My basic bread dough and process is half a civil war recipe for marching bread, and well, owes a lot to Dariana Allen's cookbooks. Should I post it just in forum or is there a separate recipe section?
Anyway wondering if any of you have any cool historic recipes for me to try out, not just sourdough, but overall.
Cheers and happy baking.