Family Herbalism/Homesteading Class - Using Sourdough Discard to make Cookies! ($20)
Tue, Jan 31
|Venice
Join us in the Studio for our weekly Family Herbalism/Homesteading class and learn different ways for making your own natural medicine, remedies and food! This class is great for families and we encourage families to learn this art of herbalism/homesteading together!
Time & Location
Jan 31, 2023, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Venice, 1229 U.S. 41 Bypass S, Venice, FL 34285, USA
Guests
About the Event
Think you can’t bake artisan sourdough at home? Think again! You totally can! In this Family Herbalism/Homesteading Workshop, we will be teaching you how to keep your sourdough starter active and thriving and ways to use the starter for baking all kinds of delicious baked goodies.
It’s unique because it does not require commercial yeast in order to rise. Instead, it’s made with a live fermented culture, a sourdough starter, which acts as a natural leavening agent. Simply put: a sourdough starter is a live culture made from flour and water.
Your starter must be kept alive with regular feedings of flour and water to maintain its strength for maximum rising power - with each "feeding", a little bit of the culture has to be removed; this is called discard. Instead of "wasting" the discard by pouring it down the sink, bake with it instead! There are all kinds of…