Sourdough

As part of the Passion projects unit I chose to attempt to make some sourdough bread from a starter. The making of the starter went well, I must admit, my mother was much more excited about it than I was. After following instructions from a class mate who had reasonable success in the exercise I left the starter on the window sill. My mum said she thought we should put it in the Airing cupboard as she had read that the starter needed to be kept warm (we did).

As can be seen in this photo the starter is very definitely dead. My mum and I think it is because the airing cupboard was just too hot an environment for it. I am not giving up, merely posting up to this stage as I am moving on with other work now. Mum and I will start this process over again another time and NOT put the starter in the airing cupboard.