Instructions: Heres how to get that sour taste in your sourdough bread.

Pick an extremely busy week to bake, with only after 5 hours to do it and at least one social engagement during one of the evenings.

1. Remove starter from refrigerator and add flour and water. Let sit overnight.

2. Because you sleep late the next morning and dont have an extra 15 minutes to mix your bread recipe, throw another cup of flour and some water into the starter and go to work.

3. That evening after your social engagement, mix up part of your bread recipe: The required amount of starter
liquid
sugar and salt
enough of the flour to make a muffin batter consistency. Put your remaining starter back in the refrigerator and go to bed.

4. Get up 10 minutes early and add the shortening and rest of the flour to the bread. Knead, throw a dishtowel over the bowl and go to work.

5. As soon as you get home after 5, form loaves and let them rise. Figure out what time you have to go to bed and put the bread in the oven 45 minutes before that no matter how little its risen.

WARNING: These could be bricks, but theyll be REALLY sour bricks!

If you would like to email yourself the recipe for later use, or share the recipe with your friends or family, enter the email addresses below and this recipe will be emailed to you and others as well.