Tag Archives: sourdough

Hairy Sourdough Starter

By John | Published: June 10, 2010

I’ve been trying to start some 100% rye sourdough starter for a while now, and things keep on going wrong. I’m using Gaarp’s Starting a Starter tutorial but using rye flour all of the time, and every time things shut down and go mouldy during the Day 3 step. Day 1 looks normal, not much […]

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Continuing (Mis)Adventures with Rye Bread & Rye Sourdough

By John | Published: May 24, 2010

About the bread. A while ago I was pumped about 100% rye breads. Today I am not so pumped. I tried making another loaf of yeast-leavened 100% rye and it turned out like this: I used bacon grease, and kind of too much of it, to grease the pan, so we refer to this loaf […]

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Yeast-Leavened Rye Bread

By John | Published: May 12, 2010

We’ve been wanting to reduce the amount of wheat in our diet. Actually, we would like to eliminate it for a while and see how that goes, but we also like bread. Enter Rye Flour. I’ve been having pretty decent results making bread so far, but before I embarked on my rye loaf I did […]

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