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Mendenhall Sourdough Gingerbread

Servings: 4
Ingredients:

1 c  Active Sourdough Starter          1/2 c  Hot Water
1/2 c  Molasses                          1/2 t  Salt
1 t  Baking Soda                       1/2 c  Firmly Packed Brown Sugar
1 ea Large Egg                       1 1/2 c  Unbleached Flour
1 t  Ginger                              1 t  Cinnamon
1/2 c  Shortening

Cream brown sugar and shortening and beat. Then add molasses and egg,beating continuously. Sift dry ingredients together and blend into hotwater. Then beat this mixture into creamed mixture. As the last step, addthe sourdough starter slowly, mixing carefully to maintain a bubbly batter.Bake in pan at 375 degrees F for about 30 [...]

Sourdough Cornbread

Servings: 4
Ingredients:

1/2 c  Active Sourdough Starter            2 T  Margarine, Melted
1/2 c  Cornmeal                            1 t  Salt
1 T  Sugar                             1/2 c  Sour Cream or Yogurt
2 ea Large Eggs, Stirred                 1 c  Unbleached Flour
1/2 t  Cream Of Tartar                   1/2 t  Baking Powder

Mix ingredients in the above order, stirring only enough to blend themixture. Pour into a buttered pan. Bake in a 375 to 400 degree oven forabout 15 minutes.

Sourdough Pizza Shells

Servings: 4
Ingredients:

1 c  Sourdough Starter                   1 T  Shortening, Melted
1 t  Salt                                1 c  Flour

Mix ingredients, working in the flour until you have a soft dough. Rollout into a flat shape. Dash oil over a dough sheet and place dough on it.Bake about 5 minutes. It doesn’t take long, so watch carefully. Havepizza sauce and topping ready and make pizza as usual. Then bake as usual.

Sourdough Sams

Servings: 4
Ingredients:

1/2 c  Active Sourdough Starter          1/2 c  Sugar
2 T  Shortening                          2 c  Unbleached Flour
1 t  Baking Powder                       1 ea Large Egg
1/2 t  Nutmeg                            1/4 t  Cinnamon
1/2 t  Baking Soda                       1/2 t  Salt
1/3 c  Buttermilk or Sour Milk

Sift dry ingredients, stir into liquid, roll out and cut with regulardonut cutter. Then heat some oil in a deep fryer to 390 degrees F and fry.
Makes about 17 Doughnuts with holes. Just before serving dust withpowdered or cinnamon sugar.
NOTE:These doughnuts are virtually greasless. And if you want you can makeseveral batches at [...]

Sourdough Banana Bread

Servings: 12
Ingredients:

1/2 c  Shortening                          1 c  Sugar
1 ea Large Egg                           1 c  Mashed Bananas
1 c  Active Sourdough Starter            2 c  Unbleached Flour
1 t  Salt                                1 t  Baking Powder
1/2 t  Baking Soda                       3/4 c  Chopped Walnuts
1 t  Vanilla OR                          1 t  Grated Orange Peel

Cream together the shortening and sugar, add egg and mix until blended.Stir in bananas and sourdough starter. Add orange peel or vanilla. Stirflour and measure again with salt, baking powder and soda. Add flourmixture and walnuts to the first mixture, stirring until just blended.Pour into greased 9 x 5-inch loaf pan. Bake [...]

Bran Date Bread

Servings: 12
Ingredients:

1 1/4 c  Unbleached Flour, Sifted        1 1/2 t  Baking Powder
1 t  Salt                              1/2 c  Active Sourdough Starter
3/4 c  Buttermilk or Sour Milk             1 c  Finely Chopped Pitted Dates
1 c  All Bran                            1 t  Grated Lemon Peel (ZestOnly)
2 ea Large Eggs, Beaten                1/4 c  Vegetable Oil
3/4 c  Firmly Packed. Brown Sugar

Sift dry ingredients together. Dust dates with 1 T flour mixture, then addto the bowl. Then add the brown sugar, all bran, and grated lemon peel.Combine 3/4 cu buttermilk, 2 beaten eggs, 1/4 cup vegetable oil. Add allonce to flour mixture with the sourdough starter, stirring until wellmoistened. Pour into greased or [...]

Sourdough Pumpernickle

Servings: 10
Ingredients:

1 1/2 c  Active Sourdough Starter            2 T  Caraway Seeds, Chopped
2 c  Unsifted Rye Flour                1/2 c  Boiling Black Coffee
1/2 c  Molasses                          1/4 c  Dry Skim Milk
2 t  Salt                                3 T  Melted Shortening
1/2 c  Whole Milk                      2 3/4 c  Unbleached Flour
1 pk Active Dry Yeast

Pour boiling coffee over chopped caraway seeds. Let the mixture cool andthen add it to the rye flour and starter which have previously been mixedwell. Let stand for 4 to 8 hours in a warm place, preferabley overnight.
Then add the molasses, dry milk, salt, shortening,liquid milk, unbleachedflour and yeast. Mix well. Cover the [...]

Sheepherder Bread

Servings: 18
Ingredients:

1 1/2 c  Active Sourdough Starter            4 c  Unbleached Flour
2 T  Sugar                               2 T  Shortening, Melted
1 t  Salt                              1/4 t  Baking Soda

Into a large bowl, sift the dry ingredients, and dig a well in the centerof the sourdough starter. Blend the dry mix into the starter from theedges with enough flour to knead until smooth and shiny. Place in greasedbowl and let rise until almost double. Shape into 2 loaves and place ingreased bread [...]

Mary Rogers’s Sourdough Biscuits

Servings: 4
Ingredients:

1/2 c  Active Starter                      1 c  Milk
2 1/2 c  Flour                             1/3 c  Lard or Shortening
1 T  Sugar                             3/4 t  Salt
2 t  Baking Powder                     1/2 t  Baking Soda
1/4 t  Cream Of Tartar

At bedtime make a batter of the half cup of starter, cup of milk, and 1 cupof the flour. Let set overnight if the biscuits are wanted for breakfast.If wanted for noon, the batter maybe mixed in the morning and set in a warmplace to rise. However, unless the weather is [...]

Aunt Cora’s Biscuits

Servings: 4
Ingredients:

1 1/2 c  Sifted Unbleached Flour             3 t  Baking Powder
1 t  Salt                            1 1/2 t  Baking Soda *
2 T  Sugar                             1/4 c  Shortening, Melted
1 1/2 c  Sourdough Starter

* More Baking Soda may be added if the starter if very sour.
Place flour in bowl, add starter in a well, then add melted shortening anddry ingredients. Mix lightly and turn out onto a lightly floured board andknead until the consistency of bread dough, or of a satiny finish. Pat orroll out [...]