#5: How to Make a Homemade Sourdough Bread

Sourdoughs are one of the older kinds of breads still around. Instead of instant yeast, they rely on a yeast colony called a starter or a 'mother'. This is a container of a liquid flour mixture that already has its own yeast within it, captured from the air months or years before. This starter has been fermenting for a long time, so it gives sourdough breads a distinctive slightly sour taste which is really yummy. It also makes for great crusts and moist insides. You often run across sourdough buns in good restaurants. Now here's your chance to make this time-honoured bread at home. This recipe requires a starter, so if you don't have one, click here and I'll show you how to make one. Today's video podcast shows you how to makes one loaf, and like all sourdoughs, it takes a while. I've timed it so you can start it before you go to work, and finish it when you come home. Your time is quite minimal - just a few minutes. The yeast does most of the work. Click here to watch the podcast: Ingredients: 2 cups of starter 2 tsp of salt 2 tsp sugar 4-5 cups of white flour 2 tbsps of vegetable oil

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#5: How to Make a Homemade Sourdough Bread is an episode from Take back the bread by Steve the Bread Guy.

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This episode was published on Apr 9, 2011.

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