[All-postdocs] Sourdough starter around Falmouth?

[Frants Jensen]

Hi all,

Thank you all for your help and feedback on this, and especially to
Brittany Widmer for the sourdough starter. Super excited about this.
Indeed, Kassandra, flour has also been a bit difficult to find here, but
I've had more luck finding flour than I have finding yeast, so I hope it
will all work out.

Hope you're all well and getting through the crisis safely!

Cheers
Frants

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Frants Havmand Jensen
Visiting Investigator
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA, USA


On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 9:05 AM Kassandra Costa <kacosta at whoi.edu> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Fun to see my fellow quarantinites getting excited about bread!
>
> I have been baking bread for ~10 years, and I thought I should weigh in
> one point about making sourdough, especially if you are hoping to get that
> crusty and delicious San Francisco type sourdough loaf. If you are
> endeavoring on a brand new starter
> <https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/sourdough-starter-recipe>, you
> can easily go through an 3/4 to a full bag of flour by the time you have a real
> crunchy loaf
> <https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/extra-tangy-sourdough-bread-recipe>.
> Along the way you can get many delicious treats
> <https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/collections/sourdough-discard-recipes> like
> pancakes and pizza crust and chocolate cake, so it’s not a total loss. I
> have seen recipes that use less flour
> <https://slice.seriouseats.com/2010/11/how-to-make-sourdough-starter-day-0.html>,
> but personally I have not been impressed by the results. I don’t currently
> have a sourdough starter alive, but if I did I would share with you all!
>
> Anyways, just wanted to give FYI on flour demands for sourdough, esp if
> you are having trouble finding flour at the grocery stores.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Kassandra
>
>
>
> On Apr 5, 2020, at 8:11 PM, Rebecca Helm <rrhelm at unca.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Frants--
>
> I am afraid I don't live in the area anymore, but for anyone who is
> interested in making a started you can also do it with flour, water, and
> dried fruit (or old wine, beer etc):
> https://twitter.com/shoelaces3/status/1244252079041974272
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 2:37 PM Frants Jensen <frants.jensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all
>>
>> Given all the extra time at home these days, I am looking at doing some
>> more baking, esp trying out sourdough bread. Does anyone have an active
>> sourdough starter that they would help share (while following good social
>> distancing rules) to another household? If so, I would love an email from
>> you:)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Frants
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> Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, NMNH
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