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酸麵包 Sourdough Bread

I had to look up how to say sourdough bread in Chinese.  The fact is, I never had this kind of bread in Taiwan. A good sourdough bread is often chewy, airy, and have nice hard crust.  The texture stands on the opposite end of Asian breads which are soft, still airy, sweet, and soft crust (ideal bread for people with no teeth or chewing problem?). I got my sourdough start - Hope in November 2020 (yap, right ahead of the pandemic craze of baking sourdough) from someone giving it out for free on Facebook's Seattle Taiwanese Mom's group.  It came in a small container, a size of a ping pong ball.  When I saw it, I didn't know if it was worth the 20 minutes driving to reach the owner's house. I looked up many sourdough YouTubes.  There are so many.  If I am to recommend one, it would be -  How To Make Sourdough Bread Masterclass .  😊 10M+ people watched it.  The recipe makes two loaves of bread. I keep Hope in a mason jar.  We don't...