Mom's Spaghetti Sauce

1/2 pound hamburger
3 (8 oz) cans tomato sauce
1 (6 oz) can tomato paste

1 tablespoon minced dry onion
1 tablespoon sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon basil
1 teaspoon oregano
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon pepper

Brown meat.  Add remaining ingredients and simmer with lid on for one hour stirring occasionally.  Laddle over hot, thin spaghetti.

Sour Dough Chocolate Cake

Sour Dough Chocolate Cake

7/8 c. to 1 c. spelt flour or soft white wheat flour (Add more flour if batter is too thin)

1/2 c. sourdough starter

1/2 c. milk

1/2 to 3/4 c. rapadura, sucanat, or other unrefined sugar

1/2 c. coconut oil (melted but not hot)

1 tsp. vanilla

1 egg

3/4 c. cocoa powder (preferably not Dutch process)

1/2 tsp. salt

3/4 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp finely ground teeccino (I don't know what this is so I leave it out)

Combine starter, milk, and flour.  Mix. Cover and let rest at room temperature for 8 to 12 hours (or overnight).  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease 8" or 9" pan.

Combine sweetener, oil, vanilla, egg, and cocoa powder.  Beat.  Add sourdough mixture, salt, baking soda and Teeccino.  Beat until smooth.  Pour into prepared pan.  Bake 25 to 35 minutes.  This is good with or without frosting.

(If cake deflates, the batter was too thin.  Use thicker starter or more flour)

Sour Dough Spice Cake

Sour Dough Spice Cake

1 c. soft white wheat flour

1/2 c. sourdough starter

3/8 c. milk

1/2 to 3/4 c. rapadura, sucanat, or other unrefined sugar

1/2 c. melted coconut oil

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1 or 2 eggs

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. ground cloves

1/4 tsp. allspice

1/2 tsp. (scant) baking soda

1/2 tsp. (scant) baking powder

Combine starter, milk, flour.  Cover and let rest at room temperature 8 to 12 hours (overnight). Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease 8 or 9 inch pan. Combine sugar, coconut oil, vanilla, egg.  Mix.  Add sourdough mixture, salt, baking soda, baking powder, spices. Beat. Pour in pan. Bake 25 to 35 minutes.  Frost when cool.

Quick Sour Dough Pancakes

Quick Sour Dough Pancakes

2 cups sourdough starter (fed in last 12 hours)   ( I usually feed it the night before)

4 TB oil (coconut or melted butter)

1/2 tsp. salt

1 egg

2 TB sweetener (honey, sucanat, etc.)

1 tsp vanilla (optional)

1 tsp. baking soda

1 TB water

Whisk together eggs, oil, salt, sweetener.  Pour in 2 cups starter.  Stir well.  Set aside.  In a small cup combine 1 TB water and 1 tsp baking soda.  Add to other mixture and stir.  Cook pancakes on hot skillet.

Quick Sour Dough Crepes

Quick Sour Dough Crepes

1 cup sourdough starter (make sure it has been fed in the last 12 hours)

3 eggs

3 TB butter (melted)

1/4 tsp. salt

2 to 3 tsp. sugar (for dessert crepe)

milk to thin (about 1/4 cup or less)

Whisk eggs then add melted butter, salt, and sugar.  Mix together then add to starter.  Mix.  Slowly add milk while whisking until you get a thin batter.  Take a butter stick and quickly run it around the base of your hot skillet.  Pour 1/4 c. (more or less) into the center of the skillet.  Quickly pick up the skillet and roll the batter outward (aiming for a circle shape).  Put the skillet back on the burner and cook until the edges are a bit dry and small bubbles dot the surface of the crepe.  Flip and cook other side.  Place crepe on plate.  Stacking crepes keeps them soft and warm.