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- From: fritz@fc.sde.hp.com (Gary Fritz)
- Subject: Re: Not sour enough!
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:43:46 GMT
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- Julie Kangas (julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
- : One other thing, in your first post you mentioned a 'froth'. When
- : proofing, the culture should go through a stage when it's very
- : puffy and bubbly (this is when mine tries to set up a puppet
- : government in the kitchen). It then subsides leaving a few
- : bubbles on top (but still puffy inside).
-
- Really? I thought it was GOOD that it was still going nuts after
- 13 hours.
-
- : Usually, the culture
- : is used at this stage. If you use it before it will probably rise
- : ok but won't be as sour as it could be. If you use it later
- : the yeast may not be as active but it will be more sour.
-
- Hm. Makes it sorta tough to schedule things if you don't know when
- the sponge is going to settle down. As it was I was tied to the house
- until 5pm yesterday. (Partly my fault, since I'd run out of flour
- when restarting the start the night before and couldn't make the dough
- until 11am, but still...)
-
- Out of curiosity, I tried tasting the frothy sponge. It was VERY tart.
- I figured the lactobacilli were going nuts along with the yeast, and
- I was surprised when it turned out so mild. I guess adding all the
- flour & etc to make the dough diluted the sour, and it didn't get
- much of a chance to recover while it was rising (~4+ hours).
-
- : I've let mine go for over 24 hours (at a low temperature though) and still
- : had bread that rose very well and had a *most* sour taste.
-
- I assume the 24hrs was the sponge/culture stage, and then you fed it more
- flour &etc to wake it up and get it to rise?
-
- Gary
-