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Extra Sour Sourdough Bread

Extra Sour Sourdough Bread — a community recipe on Potlikkr.

Ingredients

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• Extra Sour Sourdough Bread

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Most bread baked from sourdough starters is intended NOT to be very sour. If you read old cookbooks you find that people went to great length to avoid sour bread. It was some crazies in the SF Bay area that started producing not only a fine Mild sourdough loaf but also the extra sour stuff.

2. 2

   The trick to making the extra sour stuff seems to be to leave the starter at room temperature or warmer for an extended time. I feed mine each day. It takes a stable starter to do this. The Goldrush starter is too unstable, Carl Griffiths and the SDI starters work well. It takes weeks for the full flavor to develop. By leaving it out the beasties get the upper hand, making the culture quite sour. This also tends to suppress the yeast and if you are not careful the bread does not rise well. I find that giving the starter an extra feeding the day before use usually gets the yeast back into shape.