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hey DM what kind of flour are you using in your sour if it is really sour and not rising it means that it has eaten all the protein you have given it and is starving so it doesnt have the strength to do what you want. try keeping in it in the fridge for one also throw away all but a cup of it...

did i ever get a bunch of good stuff while in the city this weekend. 1. 40 g rain barrel with locking lid!! 2. a nice sied pile of mahogany scraps 3. a big steel cabinet work station (i'll post pics later i threw this stuff in my trailer thats coming up here tonight i took train home long...

how old are your turkeys when you process them?

hey patandchickens i was rebuilding a resort in perry sound twp summers ago and was being eaten alive everyday and night it was very over grown after being basically abandoned ten years earlier also lots of "water features" etc that caused the skeeter population to get out of control. when...

hey here are the most recent pics of my garden chicken etc. well thats about it for now

has anyone out there read the helen and scott nearings books the good life etc. they were the first generation of back to the landers i have always been a big fan of their way of doing things except for the fact that they were vegetarians and didnt believe in animal husbandry. where as i feel...

so after a week plus of heat and sun, still no ripe tomatoes!!! arrggh!! but i have been pulling lots of other stuff from the garden in the last few days..... unfortunately that is my whole potato crop this year, minus a few meals worth here and there. oh well i know what to do next year...

ok i must now dig deep into my musty brain...... ahhh well now got it. i just use a regular pancake mix recipe omit b. powder. then make batter with 2 parts pancake 1 part sourdough leave in fridge over night or on counter for a cpl hrs. watch out though sugar will make starter really active...

so i know i havent had much to say lately but well that just cause there hasnt been much going on around here out of the ordinary. watering gardens waiting for maters to ripen (at least we've got some heat and sun now) and watching the chickens do their thing. i still dont know whats up with...

with such a small amount i think you could feed it little bits of flour and water just dont throw any out till you build it up a bit more. i would only feed it when it starts to smell real sour and you start to get that small layer of water on top. it really will smell like bananas when it is...

that looks great!!! how does it smell?

I swear. I don't know if I was just hot and cranky, but I have NEVER had so many problems with a pot of jam! It would not come to a boil, then it did all at once, then it got a HUGE amount of foam on the top (I tried all of the tricks and no go) THEN IT SCORCHED on the bottom while I was...

ooops your right farm fresh we had two bathrooms and it was two showers at a time where we were having trouble with it keeping up. after living without water for a cpl years as kids we tend to go abit overboard with the hot in the winter!!!

arrrrgh!! this is the second time i am writing this!!!(stupid computer)!!! so i do have a fair amount of knowledge about tankless water heaters. we were looking at adding them to our line of wood stoves and solar panels when step dad broke his back and we sold off his business. it is true that...

id wait a week to 10 days at least before you start to feed it, remove half etc. i would stay away from putting in oven till it is up to strenght at least. and really it will be much happier to be cooler. you will have a better starter more balanced starter that way. you want to let it get...

thats fine just let sit and do its thing for quite awhile itll be a cpl days at least till you start to see some action. giving it a stir wont hurt it just dont do it vigorously or often you dont want the glutton to develop at all!! the art of sourdough is patience......

does anyone reuse milk bags? i love them just cut off the top turn inside out and rinse. you now have a perfect sandwich sized bag that is sturdy enought o be reused again and again!!!

ya just throw the fruit in whenever. doesnt have to be cheese cloth could be unbleached cotton etc. you wont be able to use the waste for a cpl weeks needs to gain strength etc. anythiing you would make with it ooner would be unpredictable and sour tasting. i have had my starter in the freeer...

reading my mind

ok bread is one thing i know alot about especially sourdough plastic will not pose a problem i have started kept starters in rubbermaid buckets for years my sourdough is now yikes 14 years old and i am pretty sure it has always bee in pastic so heres what i have to say for now about sourdough...