The history of sourdough, however, begins long before miners came to Alaska. Sourdough is the oldest form of leavened bread and was used at least as early as ancient Egypt.

San Francisco-area miners used sourdough starters as a replacement for commercial leavening agents. Kat Eschner. March 31, 2017. Get our newsletter! ... Same goes for miners in Alaska.

ALASKA: Sourdough Social. 2 minute read. TIME. September 12, 1938 12:00 AM GMT-4. M en make most countries, oldtime Alaskans are wont to remark, but the Klondike made men.

Sourdough has experienced quite the lengthy journey ... Instead, the name first appears in print in 1868, and emerges as a ...

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Robert Service wrote that miners "lived on tinned tomatoes, beef embalmed, and sourdough bread; on rusty beans and bacon furred with mold." Sourdough is a part of our culinary heritage.

Locked in place inside their homes, an enormous number of Americans took to bread baking to fill the spaces of empty time that the COVID-19 pandemic imposed on their lives — soothing their anxieties ...