How Much Acid?
jar
number |
teas.
water |
teas.
vinegar |
| 0 |
4 |
0 |
| 1 |
3 |
1 |
| 2 |
2 |
2 |
| 3 |
1 |
3 |
| 4 |
0 |
4 |
Sourdough starter was replentished 12 hours beforehand. 1/2 cup starter was put into 3 cups water and stirred well. 3 cups pressed down whole wheat flour was added and strirred in. One cup of this was poured into each jar containing the water/raw apple cider vinegar according to above chart. All jars were then stirred each with a new bamboo skewer each.
This is how the jars looked at first:
You may click on any of these small photos to see the same but larger size photo.
As you can see below next, they bubbled and grew a little. Notice the middle ones grew more. I probably should have started at 5:00 as I did last week, because they needed more time, but I had to make the dough so I would not be baking too late at night. This is what I started with at 12:15 to make the dough by adding 1 teas. olive oil, 1/4 teas. honey, and a dash of salt, and whole wheat flour as needed. I folded and pressed with a butter knife flat against the dough a few times for 10 cycles and then normal hand kneeded ten fold/pushes on top of ww floured surface.
This is how the finished doughs looked. I covered with two dish towels.
After 2 hours, they grew only a little. (This was 2:30 PM.)
But I made the loaves anyway. I divided each dough in half and put one half in the large pyrex custard cups, and the second half in the loaf pan. I covered both with dish towels. The loaves were finished and photographed here at 2:45 PM.
At 8:12 PM this is how they looked after rising.
Another view of how they looked after rising.
Here they are in the oven baking.
Here are the results of all five the next day.
This is how the loaf looked cut lengthwise
CONCLUSIONS: It looks like the amount of vinegar made only minor differences. I would say 3 teaspoons in one cup water worked best, however.
