You may have seen this cake doing the rounds. My mum remembers baking one a while ago. Herman is a sourdough starter that you feed and stir until he makes enough cake for you and 3 starters to pass on. Mine was given to me by my friend Paul and I will be passing mine onto my friends.
My kitchen is currently a thriving living thing with my sourdough starter and Herman bubbling away. I have been reading how difficult it can be to keep starters going but to be honest I am fairly ad hoc with my treatment of the starters (and my house plants) and all seems well.
I expected this to make quite a solid cake but was surprised at the moist and flavoursome result, plus I am a sucker for apple and cinnamon.
My kitchen is currently a thriving living thing with my sourdough starter and Herman bubbling away. I have been reading how difficult it can be to keep starters going but to be honest I am fairly ad hoc with my treatment of the starters (and my house plants) and all seems well.
I expected this to make quite a solid cake but was surprised at the moist and flavoursome result, plus I am a sucker for apple and cinnamon.
If you want to make a starter go to the Herman the German Friendhship Website.
Here are the instructions as they arrived with my starter.
Here are the instructions as they arrived with my starter.
When I had this brewing in the kitchen I realised it could be entered into baking addict's and caroline makes' alphabakes challenge, which this month has picked the letter H. Of course when I hurriedly blogged this I forgot until I was reminded by Caroline below!
