Make Salt Rising Bread Cornmeal Starter

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Jenny Bardwell and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village with my colleague Susan Brown and we are going to teach you today how to make salt rising bread. We would like to show you know how to actually set your starter. There are 3 ingredients that must be present in a salt rising bread starter there are potatoes, cornmeal and flour. You don't necessarily need all of those 3 but you need one of those 3 to make a self rising starter. Know the first starter we are going to show you is one that uses cornmeal and Jenny is going to put the ingredients in as I tell here. You need 3 teaspoons of cornmeal. And Susan says it is okay to use commercial cornmeal. I though you had to use stone ground cornmeal. Often you would see the recipe to use only ungerminated cornmeal but that is not so I have used it all my life, my grandmother have used it for years and it always worked. So if you can find ungerminated kind this is just as good. Then you need 1 teaspoon of flour, 1/8 teaspoon of soda. I never measure this and a half of cup of scolded milk. I think it has to be scolded even if it is pasteurized. At this point you just stir the ingredients, put in one of the methods for keeping it warm after you have covered it and let it sit for usually 8-10 hours and when this has finished rising this is what it would have looked like. You want to see a lot of bubbles on the top, foamy and with a very distinct cheesy smell. Some people related to the smell of the dirty tennis shoes. "