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dabrownman

You can learn something new about SD around the world every day

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC134406/

 

Seven Greek traditional wheat sourdoughs (referred to as A, B, C, D, E, F, and G) were sampled in different geographical areas of Greece. Sourdoughs A to F were prepared according to the most common traditional procedure used locally. Leaves of basil (Ocimum basilicum) were suspended in tepid water and left at room temperature for 1 h. Then, the basil leaves were removed, wheat flour was added, and the dough was incubated for approximately 15 h at 30 to 40°C. The first sourdough formed was again mixed with flour, tepid water, and salt and incubated for another 15 h at the same temperature. The second sourdough is used as an inoculum for bread making, without the use of commercial yeast. For sourdough G, crushed chickpeas (Cicer arietinum), leaves from basil (O. basilicum) and pelargonium (Pelargonium grandifloris), and a small portion of ouzo were suspended in boiling water and incubated overnight at 30 to 40°C. Then, the supernatant foam was collected and mixed with flour, water, and salt, and the mixture was incubated overnight at 30 to 40°C. The sourdough is used as an inoculum for bread making, without the use of commercial yeast.

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Isand66

What an interesting experiment.  I must ask why Lucy was reading such technical jargon and how did she come across this.  My head hurts just reading the first paragraph!

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dabrownman

starter that really got to me.  Boiling check peas, basil, ouzo and pelargonium, what ever that is, sounds weird as does the basil soaked in water for 1 hour.  Boiling kills everything so the SD had to start from the wee beasties in the flour and a hour soaking of basil leaves also seem ridiculous once the flour is added and where all the wee beasties are coming from .  I though both of these were done long before we knew what was really going on when making SD starters.

Lucy is always reading weird stuff.on the Internet and  since she is a floozy, it is hard for me to keep her off the porn sites for sure :-)  i am thrilled when she is researching anything SD bread.