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A Tale of Two Sourdough Starters

3 sourdough startersThanks for checking back at Pure Homemaking, I hope you make yourself at home!

Many of you have read the very popular post I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the new information about soaking grains and how it is now recommended to avoid calcium containing soaking mediums. Well, finding out that information caused me to finally stop avoiding sourdough. I thought it would be so hard to get it going and then once I did so, I wasn’t sure how I was going to use it. I had sourdough worked up as being this level of real food cooking that I just wasn’t ready to tackle yet. I was happy with soaking my grains and had found some really great recipes that worked well for my family. I simply didn’t have room in my life for another fermented food project. I was already up to my ears in water and dairy kefir, and kombucha. I was good. Besides, what do you do with sourdough other than make bread right? Boy was I wrong! [Read more...]

Soaked Banana Millet Muffins

banana millet muffins

 

Uh…YUM! That’s all I have to say about these muffins.  You will not believe how good they are for you either.  These are stock full of a variety of whole grains (even better if you include the soaking option) , eggs, good fats, fruit, and honey goodness. These are best when topped with grass-fed butter. And you can even get crazy with it by adding nuts or chocolate chips (a favorite with the kids).

I adapted this recipe for consistency from this recipe from Passionate Homemaking and they turned out fantastical both times I made them. They are an easy beginner recipe for soaking grains too as it turns out  well each time. Baby steps… [Read more...]

Soaked Buttermilk Biscuits

This recipe I adapted to add a soaking step to break down the phytic acid and unlock all of the vital nutrients in the whole grain flour but you can also just use sprouted flour as the original recipe calls for. If using sprouted flour then you can skip the soaking step. I pulled the original recipe from Kelly the Kitchen Kop. This is however a cheater cheater recipe because it does contain white flour. If someone has a recipe using 100% grains then please post! This was pretty straight forward and I will add a couple of tips to doing biscuits to help you along. This was my first attempt at making completely homemade biscuits of any kind and it turned out SO well! I was surprised. For some reason I had it in my head that making biscuits was hard. It’s not! [Read more...]

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