{"id":7338,"date":"2013-09-26T09:52:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T13:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2013-09-26T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T13:52:37","slug":"sourdough-sadness-with-a-happy-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=7338","title":{"rendered":"Sourdough sadness with a happy ending."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently went down to the shore with my sister,son and niece.<\/p>\n

It was a very happy time- I got to cook in the kitchen down there- <\/p>\n

with a 6 gas burner stove top and 2 ovens- one a convection oven.<\/p>\n

I like when my appliances all work ( sadly shaking head at the state<\/p>\n

of my own stovetop which was in very sad shape over the summer.)<\/p>\n

I took my sourdough down with me- and all my extra dried bits of<\/p>\n

sourdough because I intended to share it with a friend who was coming<\/p>\n

down at the end of our time there- and she is a baker!<\/p>\n

Thing two (my favorite everyday sourdough from Celia in Australia) was <\/p>\n

in very good shape- working hard and making lots of bubbles!<\/p>\n

And bread!\"015\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But when I got home- and it is rather frantic clean up at the end of two weeks-<\/p>\n

Thing two was missing.  I hadn\u2019t saved a wet version at home because it would<\/p>\n

have gone bad.  Frank is happy to watch people\u2019s dogs when they are gone- but he <\/p>\n

has no intentions of ever feeding my starters!<\/p>\n

So- I was very sad.  No more Thing two.  I was going to ask Celia for some more- but<\/p>\n

felt rather stupid for not taking better precautions at keeping some starter behind.<\/p>\n

So I started making just yeast breads.<\/p>\n

Which is fine,  because we all like yeast bread.  But I missed that little tang of sourdough-<\/p>\n

and that texture and moisture in the bread that sourdough brings.  I missed Thing two.<\/p>\n

Then I started a kitchenwide search.  Seriously, I had always kept little bags of starter in<\/p>\n

the fridge- I could have missed one when I was packing the cooler for Virginia!<\/p>\n

And \u2026TA DA!!!!!<\/p>\n

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I found a bag in the freezer!  Not much to go with- but worth a try!<\/p>\n

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And here he is \u2013 a resurrected Thing Two!!!<\/p>\n

I put him in a large container- added water and bread flour- stirred, fed again and again- And <\/p>\n

he is happy and bubbly and ready to go!<\/p>\n

I put him into a large Halloween jar- just to be festive and make sure he had a lot of room to <\/p>\n

grow.<\/p>\n

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And now I\u2019m going to dry a lot of this starter and then freeze the bags-<\/p>\n

so I don\u2019t have to go through sourdough withdrawal again!<\/p>\n

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What can I say?  Bread makes me happy!<\/p>\n

And sourdough bread makes me very happy!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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