[Sca-cooks] Sourdough Article

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

taste is of course influenced by the choice of flour and ingredients..
BUT
make the same whole wheat bread with two radically different sourdough
starters, and they do NOT taste at all the same

i have had sourdough bread (100% whole wheat) that was sweet and mild, and
sourdough bread (same flour) that was so sour and tangy i would have sworn
there was sour cream or something in it.
Kirsten Houseknecht
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "SCA-Cooks SCA-Cooks maillist" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Sourdough Article


> Bear commented:
> > Since yeasts tend to be highly localized and there are a great many
> > species
> > and variants of Lactobacillus, the hypothesis that sourdoughs in
> > different
> > areas have different Lactobacillus is a pretty good bet.  Most of us
> > who
> > work with sourdough think the variations in the yeast and lactobacillus
> > account for the variations in flavor.
> You are saying that the yeast makes more of a difference in the taste
> of the resulting bread than does the choice of flour or other added
> ingredients? Or do you just mean variations in taste of loaves made in
> different localities but made with the same ingredients? I would think
> using whole wheat instead of a white wheat or a soft wheat instead of a
> hard wheat would make the biggest difference in taste, but then I'm not
> a baker. Or at least haven't been for about 30 something years.
> Stefan
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