Unfortunately Ed's book doesn't come WITH the starter, so the additional
purchase considerably adds to your initial investment - still a good buy for
a rewarding hobby though! The pamphlet that comes with his starters is pretty
bare bones if you've never done sourdough before. An excellent Internet site
was mentioned recently on the daily bread list. I went there and the
sourdough section should be VERY helpful if you don't have Ed's or another
book, and maybe even if you do:
http://www.angelfire.com/ab/bethsbread/FrontPage.html
The www.breadrecipe.com site's section on sourdough is definitely not for
purists. It seems like every recipe there calls for adding commercial yeast
to your sourdough product, a practice I find pointless - a waste of starter!
Char
> Subject: Ed Wood and sourdough care
> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:26:15 -0500
>
>
>
>
> Bill Proctor states that Ed Wood's book (World Sourdoughs from Antiquity)
> gives
> no direction about how to care for a culture. I would certainly dispute
> that!
> I have the book and 2 of Ed's cultures (Yukon and Red Sea) and being highly
> inexperienced with sourdough, have relied *entirely* on the book for
telling
> me
> how to take care of my cultures. Perhaps there was an earlier edition of
> the
> book Bill saw that possibly didn't have this information, but the edition I
> have, bought sometime within the last 12 months, has ample guidance for a
> novice
> like me.
>
> Paige Everhart
> Rochester, NY