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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: Re: How to make sourdough starter
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 03:34:43 EDT
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> ...I am specifically looking
> for a method that doesn't use a commercial starter, and hopefully, one that
> doesn't use any yeast.

Without a commercial starter, you are taking your chances on what yeast is
(or, from your difficulties, apparently isn't) in the air where you're
trying to make the starter.  If the appropriate beasties aren't in the air,
nothing useful is going to happen.

I'm not sure why you're hoping for something that doesn't use yeast.  A
sourdough starter IS a yeast culture; it's just not the usual baker's
yeast.  A commercial starter culture can give you a flock of the right kind
of yeast you need.
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Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...At last it's the real thing...or close enough to pretend.