I am a very sad Baker this evening! I had a nice healthy starter, bubbles after the first rise...then nothing!! I read so many comments on this blog about being patient and so I kept thinking that I would be surprised when it magically poofed up in the oven. Except that it didn't rise in the oven either. I have 2 loaves sitting on my kitchen counter that look more like 2 giant pita breads and the inside of the loaves are flat, dense and hard to chew. I live in the desert in S. CA, so I can definitely say that it wasn't too cold in the house, and I followed the instructions implicitly so I could use the results as the baseline if something went wrong. So now I am back to the drawing board... Again. I do not want to make sourdough bread by adding fresh yeast when I went to all the trouble of capturing wild yeast, but my loaves are just not rising and I am beyond frustrated with the whole process, lol!

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