Trying my hand at Sour Dough

I decided to try my hand at Sour Dough after watching a you tube video from Noreen's Kitchen. I was a little nerves about it. But like she said " It's just a little flour and liquid. No big lose if it doesn't work out." She made two kinds of starter fruit juice and beer. I chose the beer one to make. I had some left over from making chili. I do have juice from my peaches in the frig to try the other one.

She called for a fermenting top. One I didn't have one and two I found out they were  expensive. So I bought a grease guard from the dollar store. I was able to get four screen tops out of it.

I like the way it turned out. I am also using one for pickles. Not bad for being only a buck instead of 12 dollars for one, plus shipping.

After 7 days of feeding and stirring this is what it looked like. I was glad to hear that as long as you used it and feed it once a week it would stay alive in the frig. I did have one little problem . I took it out of the frig and left it out over night with out using some first. I had planned on using it in the morning. Any way some time during the night it had raised over the jar and on to my counter. Lesson learned. Next time I will take it out about a half an hour before I need to use it. Just so it can warm up a little.

                               This was my first attempt to use it. They turned out so good.

This bread was soooo good! I decided to make a cheese and jalapeno  bread. I shaped it and cooked it on my pizza stone. Next time I won't pat it out so thin. It didn't rise as high as I would of like ( cooks error ).

( This is a image from the wed of sour dough pancakes. I thought I would have left overs to take a picture of . I was wrong.)

These  pancakes had an excellent flavor.  I did cut the sugar down from what the recipe called for.. It called for a cup and a half of sugar. That sounded like a lot to me. I cut it down to half a cup. They were perfect. There is a warning with these. You have to plan ahead. All the sour dough pancake recipes calls for making a sponge  with the starter the night before.

 I started the sour dough three weeks ago. So far so good. As I write this I am letting some of my started rise so I came make Sour Dough English Muffins. Will let you know how they turns out.