I followed the sourdough starter process outlined by the Clever Carrot in (https://www.theclevercarrot.com/2019/03/beginner-sourdough-starter-recipe/), and have a nice little starter going.
The starter took longer than I thought it would–since I kept forgetting to feed it. After about two weeks, it was behaving the way I am led to expect. Today, I started my first sourdough recipes. The first one, from this morning, is using Clever Carrot’s Irish soda bread recipe using sourdough discard (https://www.theclevercarrot.com/2021/03/sourdough-irish-soda-bread-ina-garten/). Since I can’t eat eggs, I replaced the egg with a flax egg (1 Tbs ground flax seed and 2.5 Tbs water and let it sit for five minutes). I think this may be why it didn’t completely bake in 45 minutes. I ended up baking it for about an hour to an hour and 15 minutes. After 45 minutes, I put some aluminum foil on the bread to keep it from burning. It still ended up super dense, but it tasted great!
It turned out super tasty! I think next time I will try some different egg substitutes. Bigger Bolder Baking has some different alternatives I will try (https://www.biggerbolderbaking.com/egg-substitutes-for-baking/).
Tonight, I will try the sourdough sandwich bread from Farmhouse on Boone (https://www.farmhouseonboone.com/sourdough-sandwich-bread/).