Sourdough Starter/Hotcakes |
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Prep Time: 20 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 20 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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This starter will help you make the perfect sourdough bread and hotcake. It will be ready quicker then you know it.—Swend Holland, x, Montana Ingredients:
1/2 teaspoon active dry yeast |
1-1/2 cups lukewarm water |
2 cups king arthur unbleached all-purpose flour |
Directions:
1. Soften yeast in water. Add flour and stir to mix. Put in a glass, ceramic or china container with a loose lid. (Never use a metal container for sourdough starter, and be sure it's plenty big, as the starter expands.) Let set at room temperature for 3 days, stirring once or twice a day. The starter will work and will have a definite sour odor. After the starter has soured, it can be stored in the refrigerator until used.
2. SOURDOUGH HOTCAKES:
3. The night before you plan to make hotcakes, take the starter out of the refrigerator and add to it 2-1/4 to 3 cups flour and 1/2-cup lukewarm water. This amount can vary in order to get the right consistency. (Swend sometimes uses as little as 2 cups flour when his starter is thicker.)
4. The next morning, dip out enough for the heel , about a cup of the starter, to save for the next time. This is returned to the refrigerator.
5. To the rest of the starter, add 2 or 3 tablespoons sugar (to help the hotcakes brown) and 2 teaspoons salt. Beat in 2 eggs. Just before it's time to bake the hotcakes, add 3/4 teaspoon baking soda. Stir just enough to mix.
6. Bake on a skillet or a cast-iron griddle, which has been greased with a bacon rind. (You can use oil, but Swend contends a bacon rind is better.)
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