In other news, here's this woman with a 122 year old sourdough starter

[conuly]

Which I guess is kinda cool?

Comments

[steorra]

"To keep, sourdough starter needs refrigeration, a little attention every once in a while and a go-with-the-flow attitude."

I bet they weren't refrigerating it 122 years ago, so it probably doesn't even need that.

[conuly]

They may have been keeping it in a cool place, though, even without mechanized refrigeration.

[steorra]

True.

It's totally cool.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

One, sourdough gains character and unique flavor with the years. Someone with a TEN-year-old starter is someone you should beg a sample off of.

Two, how many people do you know with a hundred-and-twenty-year-old ANYTHING? Much less something that has to be nurtured and cared for like a sourdough culture.

(The oldest things I possess for certainsure dated are only from the 1940s. I think some of my teacups are '20s, and I'm fairly certain the clay pipe bowl I bought in MS is much, much older--but I can't confirm either.)

Re: It's totally cool.

[conuly]

For all of my childhood we had a copy of Ree's Cyclopedia. Don't ask me about it, we no longer have it, and dwelling on the subject makes me morose. I don't think I want to know how much it was worth.

At any rate, it'd be darn close to 120 years old now.

[velasco.livejournal.com]

It made me think back to the philosophical question, if you constantly remove and replace with something different, does the thing you removed from ever stop being itself? Like, we shed and regrow basically all of our cells naturally, even transplant organs surgically. You can replace basically every part of a car over time and nobody will doubt that it is still the same car. When they washed the bowl out of all but a few scrapings of batter and grew it back, is it still the same mix?