Re: Can you grow yeast? Or where does it come from?

Posted by Someone on June 09, 2002 at 14:53:04 from (198.81.17.184):

In Reply to: Can you grow yeast? Or where does it come from? posted by SingleMommy on April 12, 2002 at 08:34:18:

Every time you make bread, keep a small piece of the sour dough (2-3 oz?). It can be kept for a long time, up to several months. It doesn't matter if it becomes dry. The yeast are still alive. Next time when you make bread, smash this small piece of dough completely in water and add this solution to the new dough. You need to let the dough sit in a covered container about 12 hours or longer depends on temperature (that's probably why people use store bought yeast) for the dough to ferment. As it ferments, the dough will swell. The dough made this way will be very sour. To neutralize the acidity, small amount of sodium carbonate solution can be added to the dough after its ferementation. As how much? You need to experiment. But don't forget to remove a small piece of the sour dough before adding the sodium carbonate.

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