Sourdough

I had taken a sourdough class a while back  http://freshhealthycooking.com/recipe/sourdough-starter/ and came home with some of her starter. The story was that it was in her family for many years. It is an easy thing to do but takes a long time and I could never figure out when to mix it. Work just got in the way! So when I retired last year I had decided I was going to tackle this and get my groove on. I was worried at that time that I had killed it. I look back on my pics and find that June was when this happened....it turned out awesome....then life got in the way and it was shoved to the back of the fridge once again.

The starter was partially frozen and had black stuff on top. I left it out on the counter overnight and in the morning I scraped all the ugly stuff off, transferred to a clean jar, fed it 1 c of flour (red fife) and 1 c of water. Let it sit on the counter for the day and repeated once more. 

I was so happy that this still lived and immediately sent the instructor an email on this progress. She replied that sourdough is very forgiving.