Sourdough bread baking

You just never know what benefits pop up from this blogging thing! Lois, over at From Lois' Hands, (click on her link to the right of this page) did a post on sourhdough bread. Who doesn't love sourdough bread, especially homemade sourdough bread? Well, almost 20 years ago, I tried making the sourdough starter. Tried three times and it was a failure. . . actually the third time I tried, we had an ice storm and our house was without power for days, so the temperature was not adequate for making the starter. But after three attempts, I gave up and although I love making homemade yeast breads, I just never got back to sourdough.

Then Lois came along with her blog post and I got bitten by the bug again! I like her method. She says forget about the extras some recipes call for, just use flour and water. So, wish me luck, folks.

If I am successful, you'll be hearing about it right here!!!

I think there is something inside me that beckons back to "the olden days". I love camp dutch oven cooking, probably because I feel a connection to the early settlers in this country. As they moved westward, they had to leave many things behind them because of space and weight on the covered wagons. But never was the cast iron dutch oven and skillet left behind. Same with sourdough. Hundreds of years ago, people couldn't walk into a big grocery store and buy a package of yeast. So they made do with what they had. It is refreshing to think these cooking and baking methods have survived the test of time right into the modern world.