Starter
March 31, 2020What you need: Bread flour (my starter seems to do better with bread flour, but many flours can be used including rye) Good water (bottled is great, but tap works too) Container (I use quart mason jars and avoid plastic because I don’t want any plastic bits scraped and added to my starter during the mixing process) One sign that your starter is alive and kicking is 2-4 hours after feeding it, so full of gas that it doubles in size (so make sure you have a large enough container to accommodate this.) Day 1 Add 2…
Sauce for Schweddy Balls
6 – 28 oz. cans of crushed tomatoes 2-3 large onions (yellow or white) chopped 20-40 cloves of garlic crushed and minced 3 Tbsp of fresh chopped basil 3 Tbsp of fresh chopped oregano 2-3 bay leaves 2 tsp of…
My Take on Schweddy Balls
3 cups coarsely torn bread (sourdoh! tastes best) 2 1/4 cups whole milk 6 lbs. of ground beef (80/20 but you could add some fresh ground brisket or boneless short ribs, yum) 4 eggs 2 1/4 cups grated parmesan 3…
Fresh Loaf Cont’d
Well that loaf from this morning tastes pretty good but I think it needed more cooking time. I put it in dutch oven at 500 F for 20 mins then removed cover and dropped temp to 400 F for 15…
Fresh Loaf
Baked my first successful looking loaf in a while (haven't cut into it yet). It's been about a year since I let my last starter die. That starter at the time was probably my oldest, almost two years old. I'm…
