The History Of Sourdough For National Sourdough Bread Day

April 1st is National Sourdough Bread Day. (There’s also an entire month devoted to sourdough: Sourdough September.) Sourdough is an ancient bread made by a long fermentation of dough, using naturally occurring lactobacilli bacteria and wild yeasts (other types of breads use cultivated yeasts, which became available only in the 19th century). In comparison with…
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