Burn Anne the amazing gluten-free sourdough starter continues to delight and amaze. This week I made biscotti, based on this recipe. I substituted gluten-free ingredients, increased the flour by 1/4 cup, decreased the sugar by 1/4 cup, and used sunflower seeds instead of almonds since I can’t have tree nuts. Next time I’ll record exactly what I do and post a recipe.
This has been delicious dipped in a brew of roasted dandelion and chicory root, which we drink as our coffee. I’m sure it would be delicious dipped in coffee as well. I wish I could drink coffee!
A “burn” is a watercourse, which I imagine as a bubbling stream. This is why I named my starter Burn Anne, because I have a Burn Anne Agate necklace I love (which is how I learned about the term burn), the starter bubbles and froths like a burn, and because Burn Anne is named after Saint Anne, the patron saint of motherhood and labor. She keeps birthing more starter and baked goods for us. It’s also a homophone for a silly way I sometimes say banana, “burnana”. My necklace has a hawthorn leaf on the back of the pendant, which is my Celtic tree zodiac sign. This is how I found the necklace in the first place.
Do you name your sourdough starter? Do you talk to it? I find it helps.
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Omg yummy!
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Your necklace is so cool! Now I kind of want one, but maybe I need to figure out my Celtic tree sign first!
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Lots of burns near our house. We are all about the gluten yeasty breads in this house, so no sour dough starters happening here…but if we were into the taste of it then I think we would give the starter a name. Something daft like Derek! You never hear of babies being named Derek so its maybe a dying name.
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Your biscotti look so yummy! As is your coolio necklace!
I have never named any of the sourdough starters I have tried over the years. Maybe I should…
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It’s like talking to plants.
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I will have to give it a try!
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Your biscotti looks delicious! I haven’t named my starter but I do give it pep talks:) We all need as much encouragement as we can get.
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I never did name my sourdough starter. Probably a good thing, since it died last fall when we moved house. (Though this way I didn’t feel as bad for killing it… 😉 )
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