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Apr. 17th, 2013 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynSo today I got some pedigreed slime.
Nope, not exaggerating. King Arthur Flour Company sells live sourdough starter. I'd love to catch my own by setting out a bowl of water and flour, but my cats jump from floor to counter to shelf to high shelf to the space between the cabinets and the ceiling like they think they're squirrels, plus at least one of them likes to play 'does gravity work?' by knocking things over. It's safer for me to buy starter from somewhere, and while lots of companies sell powdered, dry samples of starter that you resuscitate on arrival, King Arthur ships their starter live in small plastic containers with instructions on how to feed it within twenty-four hours to get it going again as soon as possible. The stock they use is a blob of flour and water and wild yeast and symbiotic microorganisms that has descended from previous blobs of a similar nature through a line of blobs of goo that reaches back to New England in the 1700s. The instructions say the original starter of this lineage began its life over 250 years ago.
Damn thing's older than my country.
Nope, not exaggerating. King Arthur Flour Company sells live sourdough starter. I'd love to catch my own by setting out a bowl of water and flour, but my cats jump from floor to counter to shelf to high shelf to the space between the cabinets and the ceiling like they think they're squirrels, plus at least one of them likes to play 'does gravity work?' by knocking things over. It's safer for me to buy starter from somewhere, and while lots of companies sell powdered, dry samples of starter that you resuscitate on arrival, King Arthur ships their starter live in small plastic containers with instructions on how to feed it within twenty-four hours to get it going again as soon as possible. The stock they use is a blob of flour and water and wild yeast and symbiotic microorganisms that has descended from previous blobs of a similar nature through a line of blobs of goo that reaches back to New England in the 1700s. The instructions say the original starter of this lineage began its life over 250 years ago.
Damn thing's older than my country.
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Date: 2013-04-18 03:53 pm (UTC)...
With googly eyes.
For added solemnity.
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Date: 2013-04-18 04:01 pm (UTC)Currently the starter is in a 28-ounce Ball jar in my microwave, fermenting its first dose of flour and water after arriving at home. Did you want the googly eyes added to the jar before I take the picture, or to the picture after I put it through the sepia treatment?
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Date: 2013-04-18 04:51 pm (UTC)Surprise me.
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Date: 2013-04-19 04:26 pm (UTC)Haven't been able to get one of the online googly eye websites to work with it yet, but have at.
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Date: 2013-04-19 05:43 pm (UTC)There might have to be adventures for that jar of starter.
Oh yes.
Adventures.
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Date: 2013-04-19 08:57 pm (UTC)Related: my sourdough's name is Horatio, descendant of Herman (whose passing still deeply grieves me. There are dirges).