Did you ever see the movie ‘Groundhog day’ where you kind of relive the same day’s events over and over? Well when you first make your sourdough mother from scratch you kind of relive it over and over (well okay, Day 2 at least). So ya know what you did on Day 2 then on Day 3? Well um, you need to do the same stuff on Day 4. HEY! Quityerwhinin’… it’ll get there, promise! 🙂
Sourdough Starter – Day 5
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Ingredients
- Wooden Spoon
- Clean Linen
- … patience
Instructions
- Uncover, stir with a wooden spoon (~5 minutes) or until it’s a thick smooth pancake batter again.
- Recover with clean linen.
- Set aside another 24 hours.
But wait till you look at it and well, stir it. You will notice a HUGE difference between day 2 and today. I can now smell the ‘sour’ aroma but it’s not quite there. As you’ll see, we still got bubbles and the aroma isn’t quite sour enough. It’s just real faint right now.
See we still got bubbles. If we had smell-o-internet you’d smell the faint sourness but we don’t so um.. take my word for it 🙂
See how thick Sally’s getting? This is AWESOME! Now get to stirrin’!
Today I only needed to do about ~2 minutes of stirring to get the creamy consistency back.
She’s all mixed up and ready to go sleep for another 24 hours. Sleep well Sally! Zzzzzzzz…
Yes, ma’am…lol…I swear I could almost smell this!!
I’m sorry you’re ill. Get some rest and if you want, make the starter another time. Probably Saturday will be the day when I can post how to use your starter. You only use a portion of it. You have to ‘feed’ it. It’ll all make sense.. promise 🙂 Just be patient.. now go take some cold medicine 🙂
Well, I am really under the weather, as I am sure you might have heard from your other half. I am not up to making anything and have not cooked for the past 2 days. But, I still don’t get it, is this what you use for the whole loaf? Or do you use just a portion of it? I am confused as to how much of this goes into your bread or if you use the whole “Mother”.
Hi Maryann!
It only is like this when you have to create your starter or “Mother” from scratch. Most people get a starter from someone that is discarding part of theirs (I’ll discuss that in the next few days when the starter is ready to use). Once you have it made and feed it weekly, it’ll last practically forever. What’s awesome about this type of starter is that you can give it to your kids when they get older and they can pass it to their kids. The longer you have it, the more robust and amazing the flavor gets!
And I would never laugh at you. I’m loving the fact that you and others ask questions. I’d love for you to try it and then comment either here or on Facebook on how yours is doing!
This looks really amazing! I didn’t know so much went into making sourdough bread! How many days in total? I really could almost smell it…lol…well I can imagine it! This “Mother”, this becomes the actual dough to bake? Don’t laugh, this one is new for me. Stop, I hear you laughing!