March 15, 2010 - 3:20pm
baking sourdough without yeast?
I had a customer ask me if I could make sourdough bread without yeast as his daughter isn't supposed to have yeast. I don't make sourdough yet. I thought that I read somewhere on this site that you can do sourdough without yeast but does that mean that the bread would be yeast free as I thought that the starter picked up yeast from the air. Is it possible to make sourdough bread with no yeast?
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It is possible to make sourdough without adding commercial yeast, but sourdough starter is really a yeast (and symbiotic helpful bacteria) farm.
That leaves you with chemical leavening. Quick breads using baking powder and or soda and either buttermilk or a little vinegar or some acid to kick the chemical reaction.
Eric