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The Skinny On Sourdough: Your Plucky New Life -- On Purpose, #3
The Skinny On Sourdough: Your Plucky New Life -- On Purpose, #3
The Skinny On Sourdough: Your Plucky New Life -- On Purpose, #3
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Nope! Guess again. This is not a book of recipes for sourdough. Neither is it a book on a new fad diet. It is, instead, a book about sourdough – what it is, who it's for, where it lives, how to create it, when it was discovered, and why we need it. It does include a sprinkling of recipes to get you through the gate of the vast and confusing world of sourdough.

It's an education on flour and water paste, yeast, time, temperature, humidity and environment. It's a tool to simplify your life and help you sort through the myriad of information to get the culture you want according to what you want to do with it. Want a sprinkling of sourdough yarns? Here they are...

Do you want quick, easy, healthy, and yummy bread products? Go with simple wild yeast sourdough. Do you want to start a club? Here's how to grow big and share. Do you want to set it and forget it? Here's how....

This is The Skinny on Sourdough....

LanguageEnglish
Release dateDec 24, 2016
ISBN9781386633211
The Skinny On Sourdough: Your Plucky New Life -- On Purpose, #3
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Alexie Linn

Alexie Linn was born and raised in the 'mild' Pacific Northwest -- where the snow drifts are never higher than the barn roofs.  Her first year of married life was lived in Alaska, in a tent and a homesteader's cabin -- where she got closely acquainted with sourdough and beans.  She escaped to the desert southwest, became a widow, and life then began. Alexie is a papered Life Coach, Nutritional Therapist, and Counselor with a vivid -- sometimes outrageous imagination. She's also a slave to Joan Freed, the rebel life coach who, somehow, manages to come out on top of her mysterious and chaotic adventures.

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    The Skinny On Sourdough - Alexie Linn

    Introduction

    SOURDOUGH, SOME SAY, is the key to your own thriving longevity, a happy home, and, even, life itself.  Is that a stretch?  Maybe yes and maybe no.

    This book will arm you with the information you need to answer that question for yourself as well as:

    Who needs sourdough

    What is sourdough and what’s in it for you

    Where does starter come from

    When was sourdough discovered and who’s got the best story of its origin

    Why sourdough

    How to choose a culture and start a tradition

    If Joan and I have done our jobs right, after you read this book you should have not only learned about, but be chompin' at the bit to create your own sourdough starter – for one or 50 – and use it to make yummy in your tummy bread, pancakes, and even a Friendship cake.

    The inside stories we've gleaned to share in this book will prime your creative energies for the tasty world of sourdough baking. 

    May it be long and prosperous — not the book, but your life with sourdough.

    The History

    BEFORE CULTURED YEAST and baking powder there was sourdough to give bread air and flavor.  But it doesn’t stop there. 

    Today, sourdough is not just the basis for a loaf of bread.  It’s used in bread as well as pancakes, cakes, cookies, and all things comfort.

    Sourdough starters have genealogies.  While no one really knows how long sourdough has been around or how it was discovered, currently a search is underway for the genome of starter used by Neandertals. 

    At the time of this writing, ancient Egypt is the oldest stated variety, — and, they say — is available today, cultured from the wild yeasts near the base of the pyramids — where the bakers practiced their trade.  It’s called Gizo[1] because that’s where the wild yeasts were gathered from.  The culture is available from Sourdoughs International. 

    Documenting the provenance of your starter has everything to do with its value in the world of sourdough collecting and trading.

    Sourdough starters were protected, bartered, and, literally, the staff of life for pioneers, gold seekers, and nomads.

    Here's to Your Health

    ACCORDING TO SEVERAL sources, sourdough is just plain good for us.[2]  It's all about the science behind the starter. 

    Those in the know say that this is how sourdough starter works[3]:

    There’s an interdependent — synergetic — relationship between the bacteria (lactobacilli)

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