Hi Ben,

years of bronchitis and pneumonia). Doing better now so maybe I'll make
a pizza some time next week. Maybe once we get our sourdough revived (froze it before travel), I'll do a sourdough crust--have done so before with whole wheat flour and it is good.

Welcome back from Alaska. Great that you are doing better. I did not know about freezing starter to put it on pause. I will experiment
with that.

We've also dehydrated it to pause it when in the midst of a military
move. Steve actually revived it yesterday, made some pancakes for
himself. Neither of us are eating a lot right now, basically subsistance
foods (canned soup, eggs) but getting a bit better every day.

While reading an outdoors book, i read a reference to old Forest
Service Lookout cookbooks. Below is a link to online versions. They mention
that a regular diet of quick bread (such as biscuits, pancakes, etc.)
is not wholesome, and that sourdough is healthier.

<https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service-history/ u-s-forest-service-publications/general-publications/post-6930/>

Interesting idea, might look into that a bit more. Somewhere around in
this house we've got a Forest Service Lookout cookbook--put out for
their 50th anniversary. I'll find it (eventually) and see what it says
about sourdough. Right now we've got to get rid of this crud and get
ready for the mission trip to VT, with a stop in western NY beforehand.

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