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Flour as food?

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Ho Dough

Flour as food?

As a former beer maker, my recollection is that prior to making beer, whole grains have to be malted first, to start a conversion of the starch in the grain to fermentable sugars the yeast can convert into CO2, alcohol, etc.

Sour dough seems to bypass the malting process. How does that work?