Mom and I have been alternating between freezing apples and canning tomato juice, salsa, soup, pizza sauce, etc.
No time for experimenting with sourdough starter - until one day when canning/freezing produce had dwindled to almost nothing. I thought, now would be a good time to use that sourdough starter.
I felt like a pioneer woman as I got the jar of starter out of the fridge. (A pioneer woman didn't have a fridge) Sovina had told me there were no worries about keeping it in the fridge for a couple months. She gave me a beautiful book with all kinds of recipes and instructions for this adventure. I skimmed and read only enough to be even more ignorant.
My mistakes would fill a small book. I didn't let it warm up. I didn't feed it and divide it. I measured out 3/4 cup and put the jar back in the fridge. I followed a recipe that was supposed to make one loaf of bread.
In the morning I rushed downstairs expecting to see a bowl full of lovely bread dough.
Nothing had happened. The book said I could add some yeast. Then I started a baking spree to warm up the kitchen.
