Alaskan Sourdough Bread

Alaskan Sourdough Bread

1 cup sourdough starter

2cup Lukewarm water 110-115*

2 ½ cups unsifted flour

1 cup milk

3 tablespoons butter

3 tablespoons sugar

3 teaspoons salt

1 package active dry yeast

¼ lukewarm water

6 ¼ – 6 ½ cups unsifted flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

melted buttermilk

Pour sourdough starter into bowl add 2 cups lukewarm water, 2 ½ flour, mixing well with a wooden spoon cover with towel, let stand in warm place overnight. Scald Milk in a saucepan add butter, sugar and salt. Add package to dry yeast to ¼ cup lukewarm water combine yeast water with milk mixture. mix mixture with 2cups flour, mix with starter, beat with wooden spoon until smooth, sprinkle baking soda over batter stir genitally and well. Cover bowl with towel, let rise in warm place until almost doubled about 40 minutes. Stir down batter and stir in remaining four. Drop your now formed dough ball on to a floured surface kneed 5 min. devide dough in ½ let sit coverd for ten minutes shpae in to loafs put on greased baking 9x5 pan, brush with melted butter let rise about an hour. bake at 375* for 50 minutes.