[Diva]

Originally Posted by Words

Does anyone have a tried and tested recipe for sour dough? W/we have one recipe but it calls for adding a cup of flour and half a cup of water per day, which to me, seems rather a lot (I have visions of going in the kitchen and finding this great big dough monster coming at me like something out of a Hitchcock movie).

Anyone?

Back in the day when I was a stay~at~home Mom, I made bread all the time.....sour dough was one of them. What I did was to take out a portion of the starter, add 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 water....so the measurements You mentioned for flour was more than I used. (I found my old recipe for starter, etc.) And You stir it down, too, so that it "collapses" and doesn't take over a la Hitchcock movie!

I hope that helped.....happy baking! You're making me want to bake bread again!!!

~Diva