Recipe: Perfect Sourdough Surprise

Sourdough Surprise. Crusty loaf, made in honoured way using and harnessing the raising power of wild yeasts and bacteria. Real sourdough baking is an object of craft, beauty and nourishing. Its characteristics and flavour is vastly superior.

I recently joined Google+ and have been enjoying connecting with old friends and making new ones and hanging out in hang outs. What the Pandemic Hath Wrought by Susan Barron. I am a frustrated bread baker. You can have Sourdough Surprise using 7 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sourdough Surprise

1. It's 2 slices of sourdough bread.
2. Prepare 2 strips of bacon(panchetta or pastrami is also fine).
3. It's of Cheddar cheese.
4. You need of Double Gloucester Cheese.
5. You need of Mozzarella Cheese.
6. Prepare of Garlic Pepper.
7. You need 1 of Egg.

I typically bake our scrumptious breakfast bread (whole wheat raisin nut bread) at least once a week. Thanks to Covid, my supply of yeast is dangerously low! Sourdough, or a sourdough starter, is basically a fermented mixture of grain and water in which wild yeasts are able to grow and thrive. Sourdough is considered to be the earliest form of leavening available to bakers.

Sourdough Surprise step by step

1. Butter both sides of both slices of bread.
2. Heat your pan slightly, add a little butter to ensure that the bread doesn't stick.
3. Place the bread in the pan and lightly toast both sides.
4. Cut a hole into one of the slices of bread.
5. On one slice of bread, put your 3 cheese and pork of choice.
6. In the slice of bread with the hole, add your egg(make sure the yolk is aligned with the hole you've made).
7. Put a lid on the pan and let the cheese melt and the egg get to the consistency where the yolk is like a sauce..
8. Season both sides with garlic pepper.
9. Place the bread with the egg on top of the one with your filling.
10. Steam for 2-3 mins on medium heat(longer if you want the egg completely cooked).
11. Plate it, cut it, eat it.

Sourdough utilizes the natural yeasts that occur within grains, which are cultivated, along with healthy, friendly bacteria to. Sourdough Surprises suggested two recipes: one with an overnight fermented dough, and the other, a quick one. I have used a non-sourdough scone recipe with success and I adapted it by including the starter. I've used a process of flavouring the scones from Peter Reinhart. The recipe is so simple and requires just a few ingredients.

Share this post