Elevate Your Holiday Gifts By Giving This Healthy Food Away
This holiday season, give yourself a break from the madness of last-minute shopping by giving away sourdough — a tasty, healthy, and simple bread that your favorite artisan bakery would be happy to bake for you.
What is sourdough?
Sourdough is the ancient process of making bread. It was discovered in Egypt circa 4000 BC when wheat grains mixed with water by accident. The fusion yielded a live culture — the levain — which causes bread to rise. This levain (or starter) is simply a mixture of flour and water that is constantly nurtured, contrary to its more modern, chemically-induced iteration — instant yeast.
The bread resulting from this process is also referred to as sourdough or sourdough bread.
At the height of the pandemic, the sourdough craft was resuscitated when people suddenly holed up in their homes started baking en masse and inadvertently caused a shortage of yeast.
In my biased view, we seem to be better for it.
If you have not tried sourdough before, read on to know why it is a worthy Christmas present and why it deserves a place at your holiday table.
