[Sca-cooks] Sourdough

[johnna holloway]

The first edition of Ed Wood's book World Sourdoughs
from Antiquity has nothing in it about using juniper.
It rings absolutely no bells with me as to it being a true
story. A WWW search shows that a Juniper Creek Farm sells
a proofing box, but nothing that seems to connect junipers
with sourdough. There is a lot of folklore about sourdough
breads.  Do you recall your source? I have checked my home
library and found zero on the topic.

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

Isabella di Giovanni wrote:
 Correct me if I am wrong (which, according to Fergus, I never am :-) ),
but didn't the old Sourdoughs make their original sourdough from the
seeds of the Juniper tree, by mixing them with water, letting it sit a
few days and using that water to mix with the flour. I guess, therefore
using the wild yeasts, common on lots of things.
> Please, really correct me if I am wrong.
> Isabella
>