Home Improvement, Sustainability, and Organic Gardening in Progress
What do you do when your only child goes off to college? You buy an old farmstead in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, of course!
Rehabbing a farmhouse, gardening, and dabbling with sustainability is keeping us busy. Share our adventures through our writings and photos of the work in progress!
This weekend was my first attempt at making a loaf of sourdough bread, using my newly created starter. I do not have a photo of the result, as anyone who has produced a failed loaf of bread would recognize it. It was flat on the outside and gummy on the inside. We still ate it, but I was dogged by the failure. I did learn a few things, such as how to use a dutch oven and how to get a thick, dark crust. Determined to succeed, I decided to try again midweek. Making sourdough br
In keeping with our winter baking run, I am attempting to make sourdough bread. This is not new for us; Maggie has been successfully making sourdough bread for years. I have limited myself to using store-bought yeast, so I thought I would give sourdough a try. The first step has been to make a starter, which is just an equal mixture of flour and water. I am following a routine from America's Test Kitchen, which creates a small volume of starter that then gets scaled up when n
