Feed Your Family Well in a Pandemic Shortage
Use your sourdough discard to make delicious pancakes!
At the end of February, my father passed away. While we were out of state at his funeral, I began getting unbelievable posts on social media.
Ya’ll better get to the store now! Toilet paper going fast.
I thought, Fake news. How bad can it be? I live in North Dallas. It won’t be that bad. Then many, many posts showing photos of bare shelves in the grocery store began showing up.
The hoarding had begun, and I couldn’t get to the store to participate. By the time I returned home, there was no bread, no flour, no yeast, no baking soda, no sugar, no canned foods. The only thing I could consistently count on at the store was the fruit and vegetable section to feed my family.
Not only that, but the first basket of groceries I purchased cost over $400. We had purchased only one buggy of ‘normal’ groceries, costing over twice as much as usual. I soon realized that I would have to do something to feed my family.
I am a baker, and my grandma taught me to make my own bread using active dry yeast when I was a teenager. She constantly told me how much easier it was to bake bread today than it was when she was a child, when they used sourdough starter to leaven their…
