{"id":5955,"date":"2022-11-01T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2022-12-18T08:10:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T23:10:39","slug":"starting-afresh-the-sourdough-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/starting-afresh-the-sourdough-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting afresh the sourdough adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It has been two years since I made Lois, my sourdough, and even though we had our ups and downs, overall, Lois was a great fun to use and taught me a lot. It even survived quietly our absence during our trip to France. So what happened? Why did suddenly things got strange\u2026 a few weeks ago my bread started to not rise as much as it would. I naively thought that my rising time was not adequate\u2026 and then last week when I was about to feed Lois it was all strange, and I spotted mold on the side of the bottle. I did a rescue operation, which seemed to work. Baked a beautiful brioche, and hopeful that everything was back to normal. But then, Lois died. I didn\u2019t even think that would happen. All a sudden it became liquid, stinky and covered in a white\u2026 it was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I had no other choice but start a new one. So here I am back at it\u2026 starting again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But maybe it\u2019s the two years with Lois, the perfect weather, it\u2019s been working like magic and Baden is born in no time, smelling divine. Very active compared to Lois, who has never been a super active kind, and which smell was so so. And after 3 days I made my first bread with it. Smooth and easy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n