This article is from the collection of recipes from the Sourdough Mailing List, by David Adams with numerous contributions by others.
# From: Seismo Malm <Seismo.Malm@palikka.jyu.fi>
I have been reading sourdough archives now for a couple of days.
I hadn't realiced that you can make sourdough bread from wheat too.
We here in Finland make sourdough only from rye. Finnish rye sourdough
bread is somewhat more sour than russian and baked for a longer
period. In some parts of Finland they make sweetish sourdough bread
too.
I have been baking sourdough bread now for about 15 years and I have
always used the same recipe that my grandma used. My grandma was
partially paralysed for her last 25 years, so the original culture was
lost, but I have generated sourdough cultures from skimmed milk+rye
flour mixture (There is always lactobasilli in flour) and from viili
(a Finnish soured milk product)
Generally cultures from viili make a very active and very sour
cultures and they start making good bread in about month. Skimmed milk
+ rye flour cultures produce milder flavour but they have taken about
half a year to produce cood bread.
Sourdough bread from wheat was quite nice and I plan to make it
regularly, perhaps every two weeks or something like that.
If you are interested about soured milk products, I could send you
a culture for it. It is more firmer than youghurt and not as sour.
Especially kids like it.
There is my receipe for sourdough rye bread.
100 g sourdough starter 2 liter water salt rye flour
 
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