Has anyone seen this on their grocery shelves lately? Have they gone out of
business? If you know where I could purchase it could you please post here a
business name and address please?
many thanks,
gw

"gw" > wrote in message =
...

> Has anyone seen this on their grocery shelves lately? Have they gone =
out of
> business? If you know where I could purchase it could you please post =
here a
> business name and address please?

San Francisco seems still to be there. But who knows how long.

A good inexpensive starter you can buy on the Internet is=20
Mr. Baker's. They ship quick. Is it a true SF starter? Well,
they say so.

http://www.yankeegrocery.com/sourdough%5Fbread.html
=20
There are others. But that is the best one you can buy, unless
you want one which is free and not sworn to be SF.

Or you can follow "Bob". He is making his own down there
in Texas.

--=20
Dick Adams
<firstname> dot <lastname>at bigfoot dot com

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:44:39 -0600, "gw" > wrote:

>Has anyone seen this on their grocery shelves lately? Have they gone out of
>business? If you know where I could purchase it could you please post here a
>business name and address please?
>many thanks,
>gw

Ed Wood sells what he claims is a SF stater.

http://www.sourdo.com/original_san_fran.htm

Dick Adams wrote:

> A good inexpensive starter you can buy on the Internet is
> Mr. Baker's.
>
> http://www.yankeegrocery.com/sourdough%5Fbread.html

I looked at the Yankee Grocery link and was pleased to see that Sara Pitzer's "Baking With
Sourdough" cookbook is back in print. I like that book. Once you get past some silliness
about how to make a starter from scratch with yeast and other odd things, there is 32
pages of fairly dense information . There are recipes for just about anything you might
want to bake with sourdough and some things that you shouldn't.

For five bucks you get more good information and fewer lies than you can find in books
costing many times that amount. Other authors have padded out less actual information with
lies and nonsense to get more pages and justify a big price tag. It is not a bad book for
an absolute beginner. It is probably the best value out there until someone from here
writes a newcomers guide.

Regards,

Charles

--
Charles Perry
Reply to:

** A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand **

gw, (or may I call you g for short),

Are you thinking of the Goldrush brand sourdough starter packets. I still see
them at my local health food store. I can nab one for you or I can get the
address.

However, the "Mr. Baker" that was recommended works great. That is the starter
I use most of the time because it is reliable and a little more assertive in
rising.

Ed Bechtel

gw > wrote:
> Has anyone seen this on their grocery shelves lately? Have they gone out of
> business? If you know where I could purchase it could you please post here a
> business name and address please?

http://www.mccornbread.com

HTH,
--
Jeff Sheinberg -- jeff (at) bsrd (dot) net

Many thanks to all who replied!
Will go huntin'
gw