GrammieJan

Does anyone have a good recipe for sour dough bread? I have tried several times using sour dough starter, but the bread had no sour taste at all.

quiltingcandy

I wish I did, my Great Uncle Walter used to make the best sour dough bread, pancakes and waffles. It is my understanding that the age of the starter is what is important.

paoberle

You cannot make sour dough bread without sour dough starter and you must age your starter.

LindaJ

I have used the apple starter recipe and it has worked for me. You can do a search on sourdough starter.
There is a lot of information out there.

Quiltlove

Breadtopia.com has all the information one might need.

roguequilter

age is the key. the older your starter the more sour. when we married in ’80, my starter was too sour for hubs. instead of throwing all out, i just threw most out and fed and started new batch. that helpd lessen the sourness. i made sourdough pancakes, bread, muffins and english muffins. i have sourdough cookbooks but there's tons of recipes on net now for sourdough starter and bread items. in some regions the bacteria in local air is also flavor factor. san francisco sourdough is unique because of local air borne bacteria that flavors the starter. i also used to have a starter called "amish sourdough". lost it in one of our many & freq moves. would love to find the recipe again, even tho my oven is old and i don't dare use it for bread baking. cookies are scary enough.

Onebyone

I started a sour dough starter yesterday! It will take about a week for it to start being about right but to get really tart it will take maybe a month or more. If I can keep it going it will last for years. Life gets in my way and I end up losing the starter. Women who were stuck in wagon trains for months carried starter with them. They dipped clean muslin squares in the starter and let dry. Kept them wrapped in clean muslin and used when needed. They made biscuits. Sourdough biscuits are so good!

sJens

King Arthur flour has great recipes.

popover

My starter is 11 years old. It's just about perfect.

GrammieJan

I bought starter from King Arthur flour co. and kept it fed awhile, 4 to 6 weeks, but still no sour taste. I just ordered a San Francisco pkt, from Amazon, hoping it will be successful. Will see. Thanks for all the replies.