How To Make A Sourdough Starter From Scratch

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How To Make A Sourdough Starter From Scratch

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Step 1

On day one, mix one cup of flour and one cup filtered water. Stir vigorously, making sure to scrape down the sides and incorporate everything. Place a clean tea towel over the bowl and set aside. Allow it to sit for 24 hours.

Step 3

On day two, discard half of the mixture and repeat the process. Add one cup flour, one cup water, stir vigorously, and cover.

Step 5

Why do you have to remove half the mixture? By day four, you would have sourdough starter overflowing from your bowl. Also, removing half ensures the right amount of flour and water is feeding the growing colony of beneficial yeast. If you weren’t discarding half, the half cup of flour wouldn’t be enough to feed them on days three and four. Basically, you would end up with a lot of extra starter by the end of the process, and none of it mature.

Step 7

Repeat the day two instructions for days three, four, and five.

Step 9

On days six and seven, do the same but feed it every 12 hours, instead of every

Step 11

By day seven, there should be enough beneficial bacteria and yeast present to bake sourdough bread and other fermented sourdough goodies, like pancakes and english muffins.

Step 13

You will know it’s working if it bubbles, and doubles in size.

Step 15

SOURDOUGH STARTER MAINTENANCE

Step 16

Once your sourdough starter is alive and active, there will be some maintenance to keep it going for years and years.

Step 18

IN THE REFRIGERATOR FOR OCCASIONAL USE

Step 19

Storing it in the refrigerator slows down the fermentation process, so one feeding every week, or every other week, is sufficient.

Step 21

I usually use my starter a couple times per week. If I plan to make pancakes Saturday morning, for example, I pull my starter out of the fridge Friday morning and add flour and water. By Saturday morning it is bubbly and ready to go. I remove the two cups of starter needed for my pancake recipe and put the “master starter” back in the fridge. Since it was fed the day before, it is good to go for another week, or whenever I need it next.

Step 23

ON THE COUNTER FOR DAILY USE

Step 24

Since the “little guys”, as my kids like to call the bacteria in the starter, are active at room temperature, they will have to be fed more often if kept in this state.

Step 26

If you leave your starter out on the counter, you will need to add flour and water every day. You will also have to be baking daily to use up all that starter.

Step 28

Most people probably won’t use the starter quite so much, unless you own and operate a bakery. I would recommend storing it in the refrigerator between uses.

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