Just found out my grandma's sourdough starter is over 80 years old
I was digging through old family photos at my mom's house in Des Moines last weekend, and I found a recipe card tucked in a tin box. My grandma passed it down to my mom back in the 90s, but I never really looked at the details. Turns out the starter she used came from her mother-in-law in 1942, during the war. I did the math and that thing has been fed and kept alive through three generations. I always thought it was just some random yeast mix she whipped up, but nope, it's basically a family heirloom. I tasted the bread she made with it last month and it had this tang that store-bought stuff just can't match. Has anyone else found something like this tucked away, like a old recipe or tool that had way more history than you expected?