"Hermann" Sourdough

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My friend G came this evening and brought me "Hermann". I had no idea who or what this Hermann was. I heard this name last Saturday when I visited my friend in her home. It was a surprise that she kept from us. So, she called before she came to us this evening. It was really a surprise as I didn't know about this "Hermann". I found out that it was just a Sauerteig, a sourdough for making a bread. Starting tomorrow, I have to feed the sourdough with sugar, no mixing it, just spreading over the top and close the tupperware with a plastic cover and NO aluminum as a lid. Then the next day, I have to add milk. Then flour in the next day again. On the 4th day, I can mix the sourdough but only with the use of wooden ladle. On the 5th day, I have to add sugar, milk and flour again and mix them and divide the sourdough to 4 parts. The 3 parts I can give to friends for them to do the same. On the 6th day, I have to add flour, baking powder, eggs, vanilla sugar and oil. I can add any kinds of nuts or chocolate if I want to. I said to my friend that I have baked sourdough bread before and there was no stress. We just bought the sourdough mixture in the supermarket. It seems that this is the German ancient way of making a sourdough mixture when making a sourdough bread. This is the first time I heard about making it. Well, the best part of it is, I can wish something when I bake this bread and that my wish will come true, said my friend who got her sourdough mixture from someone. As I don't have any idea to whom I will give the 3 parts of the sourdough, I will just bake them all for myself. Have you heard about this kind of making sourdough? Have you eaten sourdough bread? I wonder why it is called "Hermann". Maybe MALUSE knows about it. Anyway, thank you for reading. Have a nice day/evening wherever you