Sourdough recipes, especially bread, have become a popular trend in recent years.
To bake a sourdough recipe, you first need to prepare a sourdough starter.
Sourdough starter, often referred to as “mother dough”, is used to ferment the dough instead of using yeast as the active ingredient.
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As a home or business sourdough baker, keeping one sourdough starter alive for a long time is something to be proud of.
And for some, sourdough starter has become something of an heirloom, passed down through generations.
Sourdough starter is made by mixing flour and water. (Natasha Breen/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
These old sourdough starters have been used by bakers for generations.
The oldest sourdough starter in history
In 2020, Xbox creator Seamus Blackley, an experienced baker himself, baked sourdough bread from a 4,500-year-old sample of dormant yeast, according to the Atlas Obscura website. .
The remains of a yeast sample taken from ancient Egyptian baking equipment have been removed and brought back to life by a video game designer and others, including biologists and archaeologists.
The trio scraped yeast from ancient Egyptian pottery, deciphered hieroglyphics to practice ancient bread-making techniques, and baked bread in clay pots.
result? It worked, and Brackley hopes to replicate the technology to sell to consumers.
Boudin Bakery: San Francisco
San Francisco’s Boudin Bakery has used the same sourdough starter since 1849.
Boudin is listed on its website as the oldest continuously operating company in San Francisco.
According to the site, the bakery was also the first to invent sourdough French bread.
Many bakers use very old sourdough starters in their recipes. (Rene Johnston/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
“Although the process of baking sourdough has been around for thousands of years, Boudin Bakery was the first to combine the sourdough process with French bread-making techniques in 1849, creating the first sourdough French bread. “We created it,” Boudin’s website says.
You can easily find a variety of unique sourdough starter recipes online, but you won’t find the one used at Boudin Bakery.
This establishment takes great care of their starters.
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The organization advises on its website that each loaf of sourdough bread is made using “a portion of the original mother dough dating back to the first loaves.”
Chrissi’s Farmhouse Bakery: Gardnerville
The bakers at Chrissy’s Farmhouse Bakery in Gardnerville, Nevada, make bread from several types of appetizers, all of which are quite old.
The bakery’s website states that there are three types of sourdough starters that are regularly used.
“This starter is a combination of three historic starters that I obtained and a true San Francisco starter that is 233 years old. Two of the historic starters are from the California foothills. And the other one is 100 Years Old from Montana. This is ours: “True Pioneer Starter, Everyday Proven,” the website says of the Gardner Bill Bone Starter.
Then there’s the St. Honoratus wheat starter, which dates back 900 years.
According to the site, this impressively ancient starter originated in Wales.
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Finally, the bakery has East Valley Rye Starter.
“This starter began as a mother of a 100-year-old Montana starter, mixed with a Bavarian starter said to date back to 1633 in the town of Oberammergau,” the website states. .
Hobbs House Bakery: San Francisco
With multiple stores across the UK, Hobbs House Bakery has been stocking sourdough starters for 68 years and is still going strong.
Add sourdough starter to the recipe to help the dough rise. (Laura Chase de Formigny for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Because sourdough starters require some attention and more flour and water must be added to the batch each day, it’s not uncommon for bakers to name their starters.
Hobbs House Bakery loved their sourdough starter and hosted a birthday party in 2020.
The bakery shared an Instagram post celebrating the starter’s 65th birthday.
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“Our sourdough starter has turned 65 with flying colors!” the baker wrote on Instagram.
“Unlike many others, she will not retire at this age. She will continue to work for decades to come and continue to make endless amounts of great bread.”
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