God Im fed up of hearing about 'sourdough bread'.

[soupyspoon]

Particularly when followed by

'home made, not from the supermarket'

Get over your sour selves, sick of hearing about this

*disclaimer - I dont eat bread. I have no yeast in this game.

It’s supposedly better for blood sugar levels. No idea why.

I know they did but (as per my post) it wasn't a fixture of UK life - certainly not from medieval times onwards. Anyway, I said I'm nearly 70 years old not 2,000!

I think it can be nicer than regular airy bread. It’s thicker and more filling. But I get what you’re saying, it’s as if they’re showing off or saying they’re better than you for eating it/affording it.

When you make sourdough though it does feel like an achievement. That's why people name their starter (which I realise makes it even more wanky). I like sourdough for the flavour but avoid it on cafe menus because it's too challenging to eat in public.

True sourdough predates any of the current breads it’s supposed to be the traditional way of making bread. And is yummy although I prefer it just toasted on one side

But aren’t we allowed to enjoy things that weren’t fixtures of uk life in the 1950s?

I'm fed up of it too; nothing to do with people being snooty about it but because it's more effort than it's worth (I think like most trendy things there's a lot of poor sourdough around).

Much prefer a nice bloomer or anything with a less chewy crust.

Vinegar bread, it is.

Yes it was around that time.

I used to enjoy it when I ate bread, I just didnt make it my entire personality or make out I was morally superior because I ate sourdough instead of Hovis!

Where is all this talk of sourdough bread?
I’ve not been hearing it on the streets,
and now I have FOMO

Not as detrimental as the Victorian age bread which often had chalk or bone dust in it.

At Xmas with my step-Nona and a coffee mid morning

But no other time of the year

That is the law !
lol x

Yep, another one who gets it.

That is actually the correct answer!

2020?
Sourdough was over when O'Neills started serving it in 1996.

Don’t you mean ‘freshly milled cracked black pepper‘ which my DH feels the need to say each and every time he puts it on his damned meal..

I could actually beat him
to death with the oversized wooden show piece grinder he recently bought…

Bloody song and dance every time lol!

Dear god - people ‘name’ their starter??

Absolutely. Sourdough is an ancient technique but it wasn’t the usual way of leavening bread in this country for most of the last millennium.
As soon as we started brewing beer regularly there was a ready supply of yeast from that.
The UK has a long and rich tradition of non sourdough real breads.
I don’t have anything against it but it’s not the whole story!

Sourdough was a thing by 1994 in Leeds.
I know that London was earlier than that.
Then the chain pubs started doing it in about 1996.

I have been promised a bit of one called Alice.
I’m going to call it Lady Alice to raise the wankiness level a bit more.

I’d be very surprised if that was the case. My mum grew up in a family of self-sufficient farmers (out of poverty, not a lifestyle choice) the kind of which still existed in our country in the 50s. The only bread around was sourdough. People in the village would borrow starters off each other when/if they ran out. My mum’s family baked their bread weekly and it kept ok for the week. I’ve just read in Wikipedia that commercial yeasts became available in the 19th century - before that it would have been sourdough, and in some places the habit just wasn’t totally lost. So it’s definitely not a fad. Wikipedia adds “At one time, all yeast-leavened breads were sourdoughs.”

I’m not sure you can even buy it during the year (unless people are making their own?)

I can usually take or leave panettone but I had a really lovely one last Christmas and couldn’t find it anywhere once Christmas was over.

I didn't say otherwise. I personally love sourdough. I was responding to someone who thought it was common place pre-supermarkets. I said it wasn't because, well, it actually wasn't. It's popularity arose around 20 years ago and many other posters have agreed with me. So maybe read my posts before being ageist and fucking snarky.

I wish I hadn't opened this thread as now I want toast.
I'm far too lazy to have a sourdough starter, named or otherwise, but I am a convert to eating it, and find it better digestion-wise. I recently discovered Tesco have different flavoured loaves too - the sun-dried tomato version is delicious

My mum made sourdough routinely in the 1970s along with many other types of bread. No idea when it became available in shops though.