It Has Risen

My sourdough starter died due to a malfunction of the Brod & Taylor Sourdough Starter Home which overheated. I have a replacement now, but still working through the loss of my sourdough starter. One correspondent who also experienced such a loss expressed her condolences and shared her hope which I duly acknowledged. (Acknowledgment of condolences is so rare these days.)

Fortunately, we saved some “chips” of the starter for just such an emergency, and thus, on Easter Sunday, I embarked on a resurrection of my starter. Following the instructions at Brod & Taylor’s page “Sourdough Starter: From Creation to Maintenance“, began the journey. On the 7th day, “Cannon Sunday”¹, things looked good: the starter was starting to rise:

A 2-1/2 times rise… this puppy is ready for big time to ignite some sourdough loaves.

Now that I have an active starter, it is important to create a back-up. To accomplish this, you simply slather some starter on a silicon pad spreading it as thin as possible and then let it dry. (No need to water it down a I tried below.) When the starter has dried, it will reward you with a sculpture worthy exhibit as the former Pasadena Art Museum where curious modern art was displayed until it went bankrupt and Norton Simon took it over. You then take the flakes and store them in a baggie or glass jar keeping it dry.

1. The church is so empty the Sunday after the big holiday you could shoot a cannon down the center of the church and not hit a living soul! ↩︎