Sourdough Blues

I'm sure having a time with the sourdough since moving to lower altitude. This is hard to take when my sourdough dishes were much sought after before.

Now, I'm experimenting with a little flour and baking powder when mixing up the flapjacks. The flour helps keep them from being crepes and the baking powder helps get rid of that weird smell and taste added to a really tough texture. Tough crepes are no one's idea of a treat.

Persimmons and Plums

We tried the persimmons this year. To me, wild persimmons smell and taste like some paint I've had over the years! Not really good. Even cooked they smell funny. I made a persimmons rice pudding that wasn't very good and now there is some persimmon bread in the fridge that meets all the measurments of a good quickbread, but it just won't go down. The cows like persimmons and I think that maybe the little fruits were created to be cow treats and I can leave them.

NOW, the wild plums are another story! They made a delightful plum butter! Makes me be on the watch for a chance to have toast or refrigerator biscuits. I was surprised how much plum butter those two little buckets of plums turned into. They are mostly seeds and skins when picked! So good and SO Pretty!