chefcdp

The Recipe in the recent issue of "Relish" does a true disservice to
sourdough. It is horrible misinformation and a crime against good
cookery sourdough or other.

The recipe calls for three, count 'em, three packets of yeast to make a
"starter" and two more packets of yeast to make a loaf of bread. I can
not understand why anyone would use more than one packet of yeast to
make a loaf of bread even without starter of any kind.

It is hard to say who is more ignorant, the author of the article or the
editors of a supposed food publication.

Charles

boron elgar

This is why I am not a big fan of most sourdough books and recipes, as
so many of them take what I think is an odd approach to it all. Chacun
à son goût, I suppose.

I used to have a recipe for Cuban bread that required 2 or 3 packets
of yeast. It did make a very interesting bread, actually, sort of a
helium balloon of flour, water, yeast and salt, but the flavor was
nice, surprisingly, and it made great toast.

Charles, sir, are you the very same who has helped in translation of
10th-11th century-ish Arabic bread recipes for David Friedman?

Boron

chefcdp

I am not he.

I am a retired chef, sourdough baker and a sometime writer of cat tails
for children and adults who can suspend their disbelief. I think we
exchanged views years ago here (sourdough newsgroup)or at the
carlsfriends mailbox.

Charles

boron elgar

Thank you.

Boron

brian mailman

I've found that there's often a confusion between a "starter" and a
"sponge" and some use them interchangeably, not understanding the
difference.

B/

graham

Presumably, you were stationed at Lakenheath? I took a bread-making course
at a place in Woodbridge (where there used to be another USAF base) for
something to do on holiday. The instructor told us how to make a sourdough
starter - a slurry of flour and water with a pinch of yeast left for a
couple of days! I kept my mouth shut!
The "funny" thing was that restaurants consulted her about bread!!
Graham

bakerboy

Hello Graham & all!


In deed I was! But how did you ferret that out, and what brought that up?
BTW; I loved my time in the midlands...although I probably enjoyed my trips
to Wales and Scotland even more. Loved the highlands...loved
Carnarvon...loved the simple, old flint mines as well as all of the
wonderful pubs...although the oldest one I can recollect was in Belgium...(:-o)!


BTDT! Not a bad place. Lots of good pubs nearby...(:-o)!

A wise man indeed! I'm always amazed at how often dreck of that kind is promulgated. Sad, that...


And that's even sadder! Then again, that kind of bread is still a 1,000
times better than the garbage they sell in this country called bread.
Very, very sad, that...

Dusty
--
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who
wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and
will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and
otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men - Voltaire

graham

I read about Inner Lodge and I come from Suffolk!
Graham

plumb loco

The name of a place I do not hear very often. Where I was born, in fact.