BBD #39 – Strong-smelling door stopper ;-)

Do you remember my post for last month BBD. This month the task was even trickier. Alisa of easier than pie invited us to go to the next level of bread baking and to make salt rising bread. Honestly I’ve never heard of that before.

Of course I accepted the challenge and started only 4 days ago – following the recipe of Susan R. Brown.

In the video above you see how the starter should look after 8-10 hours. Mine didn’t look like this at all – in fact there was no activity. Even day 2 nothing. Day 3 I decided to allow the starter a sunbath and finally it began to bubble and smelling bad. But according to Jane and Susan this is normal.

Next step was the sponge – normally the rising of the sponge takes 2 hours. As my starter was so lazy I decided to let it rise overnight. Not a good idea – the next morning the sponge had already some liquid on the side. Nevertheless I continued and made the finale dough – always the used tennis shoe smell of the dough in the nose.

And again the dough wasn’t quite active. After 6 hours rising – with no significant change of volume – I decided to bake it anyway.

The result was a flat stinky door stopper, with a cheesy crumb and burnt bottom.

BBD #39 - Strong-smelling door stopper ;-)

Big failure – I dumped it!

Bread Baking Day #39 - Salt Rising Bread (last day of submission May 1st, 2011)

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4 Gedanken zu „BBD #39 – Strong-smelling door stopper ;-)

  1. if it fails like your try you can sit the product on your sofa, switch the TV to any sports channel and serve it chips and beer – the smell would be familiar ;-)

  2. du warst mutiger als ich. Ich hab mich gegen den potato stinker entschieden und die zweite Rezeptvariante verwendet.
    Hat mich leider auch nicht wirklich überzeugt :( aber es war zumindest essbar am ersten Tag!

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