[SeniorSitizen]

The wife just announced we are out of bread. BUT, she also said she has yeast and flour.
You know what i sometimes had as a snack as a kid. It's easy. A thick slice of home made bread with fresh cream from the cow sprinkled with about a tsp or maybe 2 of sugar. I sure hope our tiny grocer isn't out of cream because as i said before, i ain't going back to milking a cow.

 

[SeniorSitizen]

The wife just announced we are out of bread. BUT, she also said she has yeast and flour.
You know what i sometimes had as a snack as a kid. It's easy. A thick slice of home made bread with fresh cream from the cow sprinkled with about a tsp or maybe 2 of sugar. I sure hope our tiny grocer isn't out of cream because as i said before, i ain't going back to milking a cow.

It must be the yeast that makes that big ugly clump smell so good. I got reprimanded once for attempting to make it rise faster without permission. Bet i never do that trick again.:vs_mad:

 

[SeniorSitizen]

This is the end result of being out of bread. Yesterday when she announced we were out of bread i kept my mouth shut. The oops, today she found a full loaf and 2 partial loafs i was hording in the freezer, and i'm still alive.


Have you ever toasted home made with a pat or 2 of butter topped with strawberry jam. Lip licking good. But the first slice must be eaten with butter when just out of the oven.

 

[Two Knots]

That looks good SS...nothing like homemade bread!

 

[BigJim]

That DOES look fantastic. The cream and sugar brought back some good memories. Mama use to take a hot biscuit right out of the oven and put butter and sugar in it for my sister and I. That was sooooooo good. I sure did hate churnin butter though. Things cooked on a wood stove just seemed to taste better.

Just seeing your wife's bread, I can actually smell it.

I was a weird kid, hmm don't look like I have changed much. lol When we moved to the city as a kid, we would get a really fresh loaf of bread, I liked to smush the bread flat and eat it that way sometimes. Forget some of my other weird ways. :biggrin2:

 

[LS-6]

The wife just announced we are out of bread. BUT, she also said she has yeast and flour.
You know what i sometimes had as a snack as a kid. It's easy. A thick slice of home made bread with fresh cream from the cow sprinkled with about a tsp or maybe 2 of sugar. I sure hope our tiny grocer isn't out of cream because as i said before, i ain't going back to milking a cow.

Better than being out of toilet paper. I think you have a better chance of finding bread at the grocery store than toilet paper. :surprise:

Try mixing some cinnamon with the sugar, it's delicious. :wink2:

 

[J. V.]

Lucky. We can find all the bread we need. Its the flour and yeast that are hard to find.
I am working on a sourdough starter.
Its been 4 days and I have a few more days to go since the temperature has gone down.
But I do have yeast now so I can bake. But I want to bake using my own starter.

 

[SeniorSitizen]

Lucky. We can find all the bread we need. Its the flour and yeast that are hard to find.
I am working on a sourdough starter.
Its been 4 days and I have a few more days to go since the temperature has gone down.
But I do have yeast now so I can bake. But I want to bake using my own starter.

My mother baked with a starter for years. The wife tried it years ago but she wasn't consistent enough causing the starter to die. IIR, to feed it, mom added water from boiling potatoes occasionally. Maybe something to do with the starch or something from the potatoes.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯​

 

[Colbyt]

I am working on a sourdough starter.
Its been 4 days and I have a few more days to go since the temperature has gone down.
But I do have yeast now so I can bake. But I want to bake using my own starter.

This fake and quick sour dough bread isn't half bad.

How to Make Sourdough Bread Without the Starter

By Cathy Conrad


Sourdough bread is a favorite in the south. Traditional sourdough bread requires “starter” dough, which is considered fermented and left on the counter for several days. You use a small amount “starter” combined with bread making ingredients to make a loaf of bread. Today, you don’t have use the “starter.

Things You'll Need

Full batch (recipe as found) 1/2 size batch

6 cups flour 3 cups flour

1/2 cup warm water 1/4 cup warm water

1 package quick rise yeast ?

2 cups buttermilk 1 cup buttermilk

1 cup canola oil 1/2 cup oil

1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup sugar

4 teaspoons (tsp) baking powder 2 teaspoons (tsp) baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt 12 tsp salt

2 Large Bowls

Measuring cup

Greased Loaf Pan


In one bowl, dissolve the yeast in the warm water. Stir in the sugar and add the oil and salt.

Mix the soda with the buttermilk and add to the bowl.

In a separate bowl, mix the flour and baking powder together. Add the buttermilk and water mixture from the first bowl to this bowl and mix very well.

Heat oven to 450 degrees. Flour hands and pick dough up, lightly patting flour all over the dough ball. Place into the greased loaf pan.

Put in pre-heated oven and bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and turn out onto a plate to cool.
Tips

Make biscuits with the dough. Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet.
Serve bread or biscuits warm with butter.

Use honey on warm bread.

If you have more dough than you need for a serving, simply place in a clean bowl, cover and refrigerate until need. Take out and make a loaf or biscuits in the same cooking manner again.

Source: unknown but a search with the title can probably locate it.

 

[J. V.]

The recipe above uses yeast, buttermilk, baking soda, baking powder and salt. These ingredients on their own are cause enough for dough to rise.
Sounds like it would be good. Tangy due to the buttermilk.

My starter actually has risen dramatically overnight. The rubber band is the line from when I fed it yesterday. So as you can see I am very close to a working starter and hope to make some sourdough bread this weekend.

Note: For anyone who wants to make a starter do not get hooked into one method! Its not as hard as some make it out to be and you do not have to waste 6-7 cups of perfectly good flour.
Look at a few starter videos and articles and make up your own mind as to how to proceed.
I have been working on this for several weeks now and have learned plenty.
So ask here. I will try to give very basic instructions with very little waste of flour.

 

[Colbyt]

My starter actually has risen dramatically overnight. The rubber band is the line from when I fed it yesterday.

Methinks you are looking pretty good.

 

[J. V.]

Methinks you are looking pretty good.

Yes. I finally have a method that works for me.