Posted on August 27, 2020 at 14:00 PM
What do we need?
- A glass
- A scale
- Rye whole grain flour
- Water
- patience...
First attempts.
One day sitting on the couch my girlfriend said to me "What if you try to make a Sauerteig (sourdough)!?" and I naively said "Yep OK i'll try!!" not knowing on what mission I was going to depart..
Following the instruction of the Book shown above I started to make my first attempt. "Sounds pretty easy!" I said to myself and so I grabbed the scale, the flour and some water and mixed it according to the recipe. 50g flour and 50g water. So far so good.. now just let the dough rest for 24h. After day one I repeated the procedure. 50g flour and 50g water. 24h rest. Everything was looking pretty good so I was going confident into day 2. Openning the glas on the evening of day 3 the dough also looked and smelled pretty good. "Almost done.." I said to myself as I showed the dough to my girlfriend. Then she disillusioned me and told me that there was some mould on my dough.
So I started the same procedure over an over again the last days. This is my 4th Attempt:
This time I didn't fully close the glass and just let the cap on top of it so that the humidity can evade, so hopefully there will be no mould. Let's hope the best for "Herbert", yes you have to name it..
Hope you liked it and Thanks for reading!
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