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Default temperature therapy to modify starter charteristics

atty wrote:

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Mike Avery wrote:

>> The starter paper you pointed to put a lot of emphasis on temperature.
>> I haven't found it to be very critical. Remember, historically speaking
>> effective temperature control is a relatively recent technology -
>> sourdough has been used since at least the time of the pharaohs.


> Mike, I am not quite sure this fairly represents the situation of the
> ancients so to speak. After all before central heating, and by design
> in the case of much vernacular architecture a home would have a very
> wide variety of temperatures in which different stages of bread
> making, starter storage etc. could be carried out.


"Could be" isn't "was."

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