Sourdough bread

Well, took me a couple of months, but I finally did it! Made my great grandpa's sourdough bread! It's my first attempt and the dough split, but it IS delicious. In January the pandemic was still super annoying. Trying to get medical care, working and seeing patients with restricted visitors, long wait times...especially if they had suspected COVID. Throw in    a difficult case with a fetal demise and I had "had it"!!! I posted this to INSTA at that time.
 "One more thing then I PROMISE I will shut myself down for the night! I was complaining to my mom, DeAnn, today...
"This pandemic has made me totally grouchy! Every area of my life is affected and I worry I am turning into our grumpy old neighbor Mr. Wilcox!"
She said,
"That's OK. When that happens to me I think of my grandpa Edwin. He saw too much, suffered even more, but still knew how to make good bread!"
 She sent me this beautiful portrait she painted of grandpa Edwin stirring his bread dough!  Suddenly I want to make his famous sour dough bread! If anyone has an old-fashioned sour dough recipe let me know cuz I can still be grumpy as long as I make good bread !!! Also share any grumpy moments to make me feel better!!!

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