House of Howard Random News
Happy New Year 2025! Let's start of with some random blurbs of nothing important. I ought to do a yearly recap. I made my own sourdough starter this summer/fall, I forget when exactly. This is half of a batch of sourdough crackers with rosemary and "Everything Bagel" seasoning in them. These are really addictive. Even Gary loves them and will snag one or two from the cracker jar throughout the day. So far I have only tried one batch of sourdough bread. It is rather time consuming to do a sourdough loaf the traditional way, because you have to do all of these "slap and folds" every half hour for 6 hours, or cold proofing or whatever confusing terminology might be next. And if you put yeast in the bread that supposedly makes it "not real sourdough." So I have been using up my starter and discard by making crackers whilst I work up the nerve and find the time to do a traditional sourdough loaf. The crackers are easy e...