Sour Dough Bread Starter, and Sour Dough Bread

                                                                       

Here is something I had shared on fb a while back when it started to get cold outside, but sour dough bread is good anytime :)
                                                                 

 

Hey there to all my family, and friends,I was sitting on the couch just now and thought how cool it would be if I shared a recipe with all of you.I got it from a very dear neighbor I had back in the 90's.She was 87 years old then and has since passed on,but while I was her neighbor she taught me so much.This is how it's suppose to be,so if any of you young ladies are reading this... the older women are suppose to teach the young many things and share their wisdom with you.This is what she did for me, and in so many aspects of life, including cooking.She was an awesome woman.  Anyway the recipe is sour dough bread, and this is the perfect time to share it with the cold days and nights coming on.I will tell you right now, that it's not easy,but anything that is this good never is, and shouldn't be.It is well worth trying until you get it perfect.There are a lot of steps to this bread, but I promise it is absolutely delicious.My mouth is watering just thinking about it, LOL!! only you can't just fix it up now.You will have to make the starter first and then wait 3 days to start making the bread and then another day for rising and then that next evening after rising over night you finally get to bake it.It has to rise twice.  
She also used a stove like this one above.She had a beautiful home and new stove, but preferred her old one on the back porch  Her name was Cleatus Barron.



                                                                  

            Okay here we go... It's a long one....By the way,you can use this same starter for years.Also for this recipe you will need 3 bread pans and 2 huge stainless steel bowls. A couple of cooling racks help too 


Sourdough Bread Starter

1 medium potato
1 Tbsp sugar
1 package dry yeast

Peel potato and boil in enough water to reserve 2 cups. Mash potato and add to the water it was boiled in.Only 2 cups. Cool to luke warm. Add and dissolve yeast. Add the sugar. Let stand in glass jar (mayo jar works fine) for 2 days. Stir occasionally.

Starter should then be placed in the refrigerator, and taken out and fed every 3 to 5 days.Be sure not to screw the lid on tight,give it one little twist.After the 3 to 5 days take it and pour out exactly 1 cup of the starter into a cup or container covered,lightly,and let it stand on the counter all day for your bread.Then to your jar add the following, this is how you feed it for the next time, and so on.Be sure to only leave out the one cup.Place the starter right back into the frig as soon as you have added these ingredients.

1 cup of water
3/4 cup of sugar
3 Tbsp of instant potato flakes (dry)


Sourdough Bread

1 cup starter
1 1/2 cup warm water
1/2 cup oil
1/3 cup sugar
1 Tbsp salt
6 cups (bread) flour

Spray Pam in a very large bowl,I use a huge stainless steel bowl,make a stiff batter by mixing the 1 cup of starter that you poured out of the morning, water, sugar, and salt. Add oil and then the flour.Mix well.Grease another very very large bowl.Put the dough in the bowl,and turn it over.Pour melted butter over the dough and cover the bowl with aluminum foil. Put it in a warm place (overnight). The next morning punch the dough down. Knead it 3 times, and separate into 3 greased bread pans. Brush it with melted butter again.Cover with wax paper this time.You can use one long piece for all 3 pans,placed about 3 inches apart. Let it rise again for 5 to 8 hours.It rises slowly.After it rises,bake at 350 for 30 to 35 mins.After it's done and before you take it out of the pan, brush it with melted butter again.I hope you and your family love this one as much as we do May the aroma of this bread fill your home with much happiness for you,your children and grand children.Please pass this one down, so that for generations to come all people can enjoy this recipe :)

I Am Not A Blogger :)

Hey there again y'all,
                    I had written the blog, (Making Your Children And Grandchildren Happy),a few years back.I had learned that some stupid manufacturing company had came out with these new bottles for babies that has a tube that goes from the bottom of the bottle to the nipple,straight to the baby's mouth.It stands up straight,beside the baby, so you don't have to hold your baby.I got furious!That seems to be a problem these days.People are too busy to nurture their babies and children,much less lend an ear to listen to them.What seems to be nothing important to an adult, could be a crisis for a child :) I believe we all need to get back to the basics of living and loving.We should all stop worrying about money and material things.They are not important at all.The most important thing in this world is our youth.We have a major crisis going on here and abroad.I believe it's because we are just to busy with the things in life that have no significance.We should all just leave it up to the politicians to be greedy power hungry pigs,and choose to ignore them.Teach our children to love one another, and grow their own foods as well as sharing, and trading, just as it was back in the old days,... that I myself am even too young to have lived in that beautiful era.I believe that industrialization has come close to ruining this and other countries.We became to be dependent on jobs from manufacturing companies and now they are gone forever.They now have moved on to other countries,why?,because we, here in this country, got smart, and demanded rights and better working conditions, and pay.Now they are destroying the other countries, and keeping their people down.I realize people need to work, but either way, one of the parents need to be at home with the children,and that person should be the one who is the best at nurturing, and having patients with them.It doesn't matter which of the parents it is, but somebody needs to stay home.Nobody can love your child,and take care of them as good as you can.
                        Anyway in conclusion,I probably won't ever write another blog again.It's just not my thing.I don't care to read or write LOL!! I would rather do art projects, or crafts with the g-babies.Only if something gets under my skin bad enough, will I ever do this again.At least now, I am kind of learning how to use this site.I think I had it set to private before the other day :) LOL!! I'm hoping to now be able to use my knowledge of art and crafts to sell my products, and ideas online maybe,one day. Anyway peace and love everybody .....peace and love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



                                                                    

Making Your Children And Grandchildren Happy

      From Parents to Grand-parents








Hey there you all.My name is Cindy,and I'm here blogging because I feel that we as a country just can't take enough time out of the day anymore for our youth.Everyone is too busy working to provide for the family's needs and especially their wants.This day and time both parents have to work just to keep their heads above the water.Breast-feeding or even sitting and holding our babies while they're being fed is now a thing of the past.Normal bottles have been traded in for self feeding bottles that have plastic tubing,so that you can put your baby down and allow the plastic bottle to nurture your baby for you.I just have to speak out,because by turning to this sort of busy lifestyle,we are loosing our youth,and have been for some time now.By the tender age of 7 to 10,the children have already begun to distance themselves from their parents,and why not?We have chosen to keep them at a distance from birth with these damn good for nothing contraptions such as the self-feeding bottle.Now I don't have a college degree.I only attended college for a couple of years,but I do consider myself to be a professional mother.I am not in any way at all saying that I didn't make mistakes.However,when it came to giving my time and plenty of love and affection,I gave all of myself.Sometimes too much,and you can certainly do that too.All I'm trying to say is that as a whole,America has lost the importance of family time,and by that I mean,cuddling,giving our children play time, with us included in the play time,and last but in no way the least,a listening ear to our children all the way through their childhood on into their adulthood when they will bare our grandchildren.I believe the grandparents have just as much of a role in raising the children as do the parents.Now a days even more so, with many broken homes,grandparents have to be there for their grandchildren.If we could somehow get back to the importance of nurturing and showing love to our children from birth on through adulthood,only then will we become a better nation.Then and only then will we produce a loving,caring people as a whole.In doing so we will make happy children and grandchildren,who will learn from birth how to give,not of material things,but of themselves and this is a treasure beyond all of the silver and gold in the world.This my dear friends and readers, is the true road to happiness for us all.