Yeast without yeast

[TheCG]

How to get yeast if you don't have yeast:

 

You can find yeast.

 

You can make your own.

 

You can even use a previously dried starter (if you're lucky).

 

Now I just have to figure out how to save OJ or pineapple juice long enough to make starter!

 

(We really need a smily stirring a big pot of somethin' and one making bread)

 

 

 

[Cat]

TheCG, try looking up our "sourdough" recipes here. It's the same idea, same methods.

 

Doesn't have to be made with OJ or pineapple juice, either.

[TheCG]

*blinks*

 

Most of the sourdoughs I've seen involved starting them with yeast.

 

*goes a-searching*

[TheCG]

Waddaya know, look what I found:

 

Sour Dough Starter: http://www.mrssurvival.com/ubbthreads/sh...true#Post110067

 

Bread Baking Links/Info: http://www.mrssurvival.com/ubbthreads/sh...true#Post104483

 

Sourdough (repost): http://www.mrssurvival.com/ubbthreads/sh...true#Post100467

 

Dried sourdough starter?: http://www.mrssurvival.com/ubbthreads/sh...=true#Post95073

 

I hadn't ever thought about sourdough as most of the recipes I see for sourdough bread involve a starter that involves yeast. Learn something new everyday. Thanks Cat!

 

Now I just have to learn how to make bread...

[Amber]

Now I just have to learn how to make bread...

[TheCG]

My mixer has dough hooks that I've never used. I'll probably use it the first time or two, but I do want to learn how to do it by hand.

[Amber]

Good Idea, use the dough hooks for part of the kneading and then dump the lump out on a floured counter top, or table, and knead away.

 

My aunt and I used to do Russian Easter bread every Easter, and I used to tell her we were not kneading it for 10 minutes, and she swore we were. So I, being a cheeky brat at the time, put on the timer. She found out I was right and I found out that we had to take turns kneading, but we got a beautiful texture, double risen and all. A couple of years later, I got the kitchen aid and she swore it could not do a good job, well, I had to adapt the recipe a bit to follow the kitchen aid directions for bread, and when we compared 'hers' and 'mine' they were the same texture. So much for manual labor once a year...