166. A Heritage Sourdough Method + Answering Your Questions | Anja of Our Gabled Home

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

If you have been around this community for long, sourdough is not a new topic to you; however, I would be willing to bet that you will hear some ideas and methods in this episode that you have never heard before!

Anja grew up in Germany and learned everything she knows about sourdough from watching her mother bake as a constant part of their family’s routine. In my chat with Anja, we walked through some of the most common questions we receive from sourdough bakers, everything from starter maintenance to baking timelines to discard.

Whether you are new to sourdough or have been baking for years, I am confident this discussion will give you new ideas to shake up your sourdough experimentation.

In this episode, we cover:

Tips for creating your first sourdough starter
How many people are overcomplicating sourdough and how to get back to basics
Navigating the many variables of sourdough and what to do with imperfect bread
A surprising heritage method of creating and maintaining starter (passed down through Anja’s family!)
Are hundreds-year-old sourdough starters really ideal?
Practical examples of sourdough timelines
A discussion of good bacteria and bad bacteria in foods
Answering the most frequently asked sourdough questions

View full show notes and transcript on the blog + watch this episode on YouTube.

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Anja's course: Super Simple Sourdough

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast. Today, we're going to be chatting sourdough.
0:05.0	Now, just when you think you've heard everything there is to know about sourdough,
0:08.8	if you follow along with the blog, my Instagram, I do talk about sourdough a lot because it is
0:13.6	something that has brought a lot of joy and deliciousness to our kitchen.
0:19.4	I get from our gable home. She has a whole different take on it. She grew up in Germany.
0:24.3	She grew up around sourdough, her mom, her grandma did it. She didn't know there was any
0:29.4	different way of doing it than the way that she did it. And it's way different than all of us
0:34.5	are doing it here in the modern day. So if you've had trouble with sourdough, you feel like you've
0:40.0	never had success with a bubbly starter, maybe this will be something completely different that you
0:45.6	can try out and see if you can have some success. So join me as Anja and I chat all thing sourdough.
0:52.2	My name is Lisa, mother of seven, and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone.
0:57.8	Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch, cooking,
1:02.5	and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
1:11.0	Well, thanks Anja for joining me again. I know I've had you here on the podcast before.
1:14.4	At the moment, I can't remember. I think it was sourdough we talked about last time, wasn't it?
1:18.6	With more like spring recipes. Okay. A little bit of sourdough. Yeah.
1:23.6	I knew it was something pertaining to food. Okay. Well, welcome back on the podcast.
1:28.1	I am super excited to have you on to talk about sourdough. Now before people are like,
1:32.4	oh, we've heard enough about sourdough. Anja has some methods that might help you to make it a
1:38.1	little bit more straightforward. And if sourdough has confused you because I know it first,
1:43.0	just the concept alone can be really confusing. We're going to clear that up and hopefully make it to
1:47.8	where you feel very confident, especially in the winter. It's a really good time to experiment.
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