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400 year old sourdough
1911a1-fan
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i obtained a sourdough starter that is alleged to be from 1633 germany called black death sourdough starter, in a few weeks i will be able to compare it to my whole wheat starter and my bread flour starter
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Forget it...African-Americans on the first slave ship wrote the recipe while they all hummed Amazing Grace. Just more black history we all need to know about. Pass it on please.
LOL[:D]
Forget it...African-Americans on the first slave ship wrote the recipe while they all hummed Amazing Grace. Just more black history we all need to know about. Pass it on please.
I saw it on PBS so it has to be true.
With starter that old, it's going to come out of the oven stale!
hell that old its going IN the oven stale......................
Interesting. Any tricks to keeping it alive? The only yeast I have ever used for bread is the powder.
just feed it more flour and water 50/50 every week if kept in the fridge, daily if left out
sourdough as a leavening agent goes back to at least 3700bc, modern yeast as we know it only 150 years
Over 25 years ago I had this little old lady come into my nursery wanting me to replant her house cactus.
It was a very fine specimen that was in a 10 inch clay pot. I could see from the plants size and branching's that it needed to go a bit bigger.
I took on her order and said it would be ready to pick up in a couple of days.
I had a very nice 12" clay pot on hand and set about the task of extracting the cactus and giving it the needed extra root space.
All went well and the lady came by to pick it up and shared her story with me.
She introduced herself stating that she had just celebrated her 95th birthday and the replanting of her cactus was her gift to herself.
The cactus she had owned for over 70 years which was a wedding present from her grandmother.
I also learned the plant had been passed down from grandmother to granddaughter for a couple of generations before that!!
I never sat down and did any arithmetic about the actual age of the cactus, but just from this lady's age, it must have been a couple hundred years old at least!
Hearing her story, I had a hard time charging her for my little bit of work, so I just loaded it up in her car and wished her a very happy birthday. She gave me a hug of thanks and secretly slipped a twenty dollar bill into my shirt pocket.
A couple years later I again had the pleasure of this fine ladies attention when she returned to my shop with the old cactus in tow.
She was moving into a nursing home and had no living relatives left and wanted me to have her cactus! She wouldn't take no for an answer.
I was now the custodian of the centuries old house plant![:0]
10 years later, a heavy spring rain flooded my back storage greenhouse killing that old cactus along with several fine Bonzi trees I had stored there.[V] I felt a great loss that has been with me ever since.