
Secrets of Sourdough (encore)
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The Mystery of Sourdough
A sourdough starter is a community of wild microbes that somehow miraculously makes bread rise. Today, if I'm a baker and I want to make my bread rise, I can just go to the store and buy some baker's yeast. Baker's yeast is precisely one microbe, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. But bakers have been making leavened bread in an oven for thousands of years.
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