Alaska Homestead Kitchen Ep.1 | Sourdough Chocolate & Cherry Loaf

Holdfast Alaska March 2, 2025
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Hello & Welcome to Our Life on The Last Frontier! We are Amy & Dennis, and this is our Off Grid Homestead in Alaska. We have been homesteading for 12+ years and recently moved from the Kenai Peninsula to the Eastern Interior. We live a subsistence lifestyle and want to share skills, lessons, and daily life from our cabin in the Alaskan Wilderness! Get in touch with us at: [email protected] Join the Homestead for members only videos and posts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYB30EoOdp-syCtLF_mTgw/join Our mailing address is: Westerlind Family P.O Box 906, Slana, AK 99586

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We share one of our favorite sweet sourdough recipes- Double Chocolate Cherry! This loaf is delicious with butter, cream, cheese, peanut butter, or just plain! -Dennis, Amy & Lena filmed at our cabin on the fringes of the wilderness DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHERRY SOURDOUGH 1/2 C active starter 1/2-1C water 2 tsp unrefined salt 4 C flour dash of honey 1/2 C cacao power 1 C mixed white & milk chocolate, dried cherries 1) Mix starter, flour, water, and salt. Mix in honey. Add flour and cacao, stir until a shaggy dough forms. Let ferment 1.5 hrs and do 2-3 stretch and folds over 4-5 hours. On second stretch and fold, add in chocolate and cherries. Shape your ball and let rise another 1-1.5 hours. Bake covered at 450 in a hot dutch oven for 20-25 minutes and uncovered another 20 min or until golden.

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