Adventures in Baking

[small h]

I was recently dumb enough to accept 300g of sourdough starter from one of my neighbors, as you know, because I've already complained about the bread brick I made with it. (I have since made a much more respectable bread.) Now I am finding ways to use the discard, because I don't like discarding things. My sister gave me a very fine recipe for discard crackers, which I've made twice, and today was my second shot at biscuits.

They were good the first time, but too small. I don't have a biscuit cutter, so I used a rocks glass. This time I hit on the brilliant idea of using my cocktail shaker. And my food processor to incorporate the butter, because life is too short to spend any of it grating frozen butter. 

Nice big biscuits.

And the really good news is that I convinced my friend Mindy to take 200g of starter. Good luck, Mindy! 🤣

[small h]

It's focaccia time! I've neglected this thread. I bake kind of a lot, now.

[StephanieL]

N revived her sourdough starter to make sourdough banana-pecan bread with the last of our homegrown bananas. The discard went into triple-chocolate waffles for breakfast today.