Life kind of got in the way and I haven't had much chance to do any baking in quite a while. I miss it terribly. It is sort of my therapy. So I decided it is time to dust off the ole mixing bowl and get back to baking.
Do you have a folder of printed recipes that you have no idea WHY you printed them off and put them in a folder? Well, I found THAT folder the other day and started looking through it. I came upon a recipe for a sourdough starter using pineapple juice. As luck would have it, I have pineapple juice in my refrigerator! Obviously the Baking Gods have a plan in mind! What the heck, I have nothing better to do with my time. Besides, I thought it might be an interesting experiment on a rainy, stormy day.
The "recipe" calls for 3 T pineapple juice and 4 T flour (easy enough!) - I use unbleached all purpose flour but I would imagine bleached all purpose flour would work as well. I am using a quart mason jar (cleaned, of course). Once I mixed the pineapple juice and flour, I covered the top with a couple layers of cheesecloth secured with a rubber band. According to the recipe, repeat this for a total of 3 days. So tomorrow, I will add 3 T pineapple juice and 4 T flour to the mixture and the following day, I will add 3 T juice and 4 T flour. We will then switch from the pineapple juice to water. Life just can't get any more exciting!
If this does work out and we do get an actual active sourdough starter, I have a ton of sourdough recipes to try!
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