How to make sour dough starter
Seven months ago I decided to start making bread at home. There were a variety of reasons put into this decision. The cost of a loaf has jumped, there are a lot of artificial preservatives added, and I needed a relaxing hobby away from screens.
My daughter found a bread baking machine at a local thrift store and it works well for sandwich bread and it is a convenience piece of equipment. With ten minutes of prep time you can put the ingredients in the well, and let it do its thing for two and one half hours. Your home will smell wonderful.
My efforts to make sour dough bread starter has yet to be successful. I found a recipe for beginners and I am now on day five. Yesterday the bubbles appeared. I did the discard, and feed hoping to see a rise in size.
But today looks disappointing :[.
So far I don’t see a rise, it does have bubbles, and it is making “hooch”, and that means it needs to be fed.
The recipe I am using is:
This post will teach you how to make a beginner sourdough starter at home, step-by-step. All you need is flour, water and a little bit of patience. Before you know it, you’ll have your very own bubbly, active sourdough starter to make my best sourdough bread recipe, sourdough focacciaand more! Grab your personal sourdough starter feeding chart.
The full recipe can be found at https://www.theclevercarrot.com
Wish me luck, and any tips are appreciated.
Alice DeForest
Enjoying my retirement plan of gallivanting from one place to another. I’m inviting you to tag along to explore Coastal Georgia, South Carolina and beyond.
Good luck. I’ve never been able to get sourdough to work, even though I make many other kinds of bread without problems.
It doubled last night, maybe tomorrow I’ll try and bake with it