Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press
From the right "starter" to delicious sourdough goodies, this book offers one of the most significant collections of sourdough recipes to be tested.
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About the Author
Don Holm was born in North Dakota in 1918 where he attended grade and high schools. Later he attended the Univ of Texas, Portland State Univ, Multnomah College and Lewis and Clark College. From 1936 to 1941 he traveled widely, served in the U.S. Navy during WWII.
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I have several sour dough recipe books, this is one I use most often. My husband loves the banana nut bread, chocolate cake and pancakes from this book.
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If you want an interesting book about the lore of sourdough - and the experiences of Don and Myrtle Holm, this is a great book.
If you want authentic, useable, sourdough recipes this is not your best choice. All the recipes use baker's yeast in them. Baker's yeast wasn't available to the sourdoughs who made sourdough famous, and it doesn't belong in sourdough.
Don and Myrtle admit you can make sourdough without adding baker's yeast, but they get vague on the details. I'd rather stick to a purist approach to sourdough and just use sourdough to raise and flavor my bread, and for that goal, this book was disappointing.
Instead, look at the books by Ed Wood, Peter Reinhart, or Allan Scott and Dan Wing.
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I bought this book hoping to get started making my own sourdough bread. Instead, I found a mildly interesting collection of anecdotes, lore, and "recipes" concerning the history of sourdough in the American West. The instructions for making a starter were vague and brief. Most of the recipes called for commercial yeast anyway, making me wonder if the starter was even responsible for any rising that took place. I tried 5 of the recipes in the book and found them all to be bland and disappointing.
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sourdough addict
Excellent recipes. Our family was brought up on "the old doctors sourdough bread"and it's our granddaughter's favorite. Read more
Published on Feb 23 2000 by malcolm
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Disappointed
This is an interesting book to read but I was looking for an actual cookbook, with recipes, in a cookbook format, which this book is not. Read more
Published on Feb 13 2000
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Sourdough Cooking, Lore & Humor all in one!
This is a nice little book, with Don Holm's humor & interesting stories regarding Sourdough Lore. The recipes are pretty good, too. Well worth the price!
Published on Jan 27 1998 by Dianna Whitmer (whitmer@ptialaska.net)
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