Sourdough

The reason this isn’t quite a real sourdough is that it uses a teeny-weeny bit of yeast in the starter, rather than relying only on wild yeasts picked up from the atmosphere. I am not going to give an entire history and account of what a sourdough loaf is, but it helps to think of it as a bread made in three parts, with time in between for the dough to mature and acquire the characteristic tang. I know the idea of a long-drawn-out, tripartite baking process is not necessarily a welcome one,