Sourdough for Beginners

Today I'm talking with Sarah at Sourdough for Beginners.

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00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters, and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis.  A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free-to-use farm-to-table platform emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy, sell, trade in local garden groups, and help us grow a new food system.  You can find them at homegrowncollective.org.

00:25 Today I'm talking with Sarah Frank at Sourdough for Beginners. Good morning, Sarah. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Are you in Canada? I am. I'm just north of Toronto in what we call cottage country. Okay. What's the weather like in Canada this morning?  It's a beautiful day. A little bit overcast. We live right next to the lake. You know, it's nice and warm. It should be warm enough for the kids to go swimming later.

00:53 Nice. It is overcast and not raining. It rained really hard here yesterday. Like we had inches  of water in front of our garage yesterday. It's been crazy weather this year for sure. So  every time we get a decent day, we're pretty excited about it. Yeah, us too. It's, it's been, uh, it's been a much better spring than last year. And that's all I'll say. Cause I've already talked about how terrible last year was.  Where are you located? I'm in Minnesota. All right. So,  um,

01:23 I'm going to do a little bit of an intro here because I actually have info to share.  You are an administrator for the Sourdough for Beginners Facebook group, which is really a great group. I have been stalking it because I've been learning about sourdough.  And you are also an author of a book called Sourdough for Beginners, the ultimate companion for sourdough bakers.  And so I really wanted to have you come chat with me because

01:52 As we were saying when we talked before,  I have been avoiding sourdough like the plague because I thought it was intimidating.  I thought that I would kill it.  and sourdough became such a trend during COVID that I was like,  eh, I don't know if I really want to do an episode about sourdough because it's very, very, very talked about online.  And then a friend gave me some sourdough starter.

02:20 And now I'm learning and I made my first loaf a couple of weekends ago and it was, it was good. It turned out like a bagel texture. So it was under proofed, I've been told, but it was a loaf of bread and it was yummy with cream cheese. So I feel like I had a success. So tell me about yourself and what you do. So, um, I have a lot of kids. I'm a mom of five, two, three of my own and two stepdaughters.

02:50 We're very busy. Our kids range in age from seven to 18. We were actually just at our oldest daughter's high school graduation last night. And grads? And we've always been pretty health focused. So we always are like learning about the food science that's out there and then it's sort of across our whole family. So we ar