chimera wrote:

> I've been making sourdough for a while and it's been pretty good with
> a few real disasters thrown in. I threw the hockey pucks away though
> and moved on.

We've all made hocky pucks, door stops, boat anchors and the like.
Congrats. Fortunately, the birds don't care. Neither does french
toast, breakfast casseroles (aka "strata, aka "wifesavers" in the '50s),
or the Provencal dry soups.

>... I guess the thing is to keep trying and write down what works every
> time and try to reproduce it the next.

Bingo.

And when you're changing something, only change one thing at a time.

> I think it's great because I was always so intimidated by making
> sourdough.

Once you get the hang of the routine, it's easy. Well, the basic loaf,
that is. Just remember, the Yukon Jacks were too busy panning for gold
to be messing around with
this, that, and the other.

B/