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No, seriously, jolly good entry, and there's lots of stuff I didn't know, although I've made the stuff myself. This is practically the normal way of baking bread in Germany and is described in my entry on German bread. A471340. (Germany is not mentioned in this entry at all.)

Why is there a link to the Danish rye bread entry but not to mine?

eh?

I don't know!

Actually I missed the Danish bread entry too, it just happened that Santragenius dropped me the link just before I submitted the entry for review.

A search for sour dough would have shown it up. That's the job of the subed. Never mind. As I said, I learned a lot from the entry.

In fact, I'd never have thought there was so much to be said about it. How did you get on to the idea? Is it a cultural/regional/family/ thing?

I had baked beans on sourdough toast once on Fitzroy Street in Melbourne. Lovely it was.

I did a bunch of searches for "bread", "sour dough", "sourdough", "yeast" etc., found lots of interesting stuff and added some links to the entry. My searches probably did turn up the German bread entry, but that doesn't mean *I* would have caught it. Sometimes I get lost in the overabundance.

It's not a family thing for me, a cow-orker introduced me to it. That plus an allergy to corn sweeteners and starch which means I can't eat most supermarket bread made baking my own a very attractive option.

You are in the States, right? There is quite a lot of German influence on things like food there, I suspect, so perhaps there is a connection somewhere.