Hey Tropical Cooker!
You're link made my day! That guy is amazing and his website answered my sourdough insurance question AND my sourdough pizza question beautifully.
Let me clarify that each starter I have owned was used to make many, many loaves of bread and mountains of sourdough pancakes. Are you saying that you made a "starter" to make just one batch of bread, Suzie? Or are you saying that you tried to capture your own wild yeast? One starter I had was...
My friends,
I am on my fourth sourdough starter. I lost one of them to neglect, one to an ex-wife (she must have been angry at me that day), and one to an ex-mother-in-law (she dumped it 'cause she thought it was a forgotten batch of pancake batter:wacko:). I am determined not to go through...
Throw away the first crepe!? That's crazy. I don't bother keeping them warm in the oven either, since the tradition in my house is to eat them standing up in the kitchen as they come off the griddle.
How did it come out? I have to agree with Sierra. That recipe is almost exactly the same one I have and I've made dozens of loaves! I've also had the Tastefully Simple beer bread and it was no better. What a rip off! Could anything be easier than beer bread?!