Sourdough Starter
The steps to a beautiful bubbly sourdough starter to make all kinds of delightful sourdough goods!
Equipment
- 1 Medium Bowl or glass mason jar not metal - glass works well
- 1 spatula
- 1 quart wide mouth jar
- 1 reusable storage mason jar lid
- 1 tea towel
Ingredients
- 675 grams all purpose flour or bread flour our favorite flour is Dakota Maid
- 675 grams water distilled or filtered
Instructions
- Day One: Take 75g (1/2 cup) of water (filtered or bottled) and 75g (3/4 cup) of all-purpose flour and mix them up really well. Place a tea towel over the bowl(not metal) or jar and let that sit on your counter for 24 hours. Avoid placing in direct sunlight.
- Day Two: Discard roughly half of your mixture and repeat what you did on day one. Add 75g (1/2 cup/3/4 cup) of water and flour and stir well. Cover and let set 24 hours. Note: You might want to discard in another bowl instead of straight into the garbage. I know I’ve scared myself by almost losing the whole thing! This is more a problem towards the end of the process because it seems the starter becomes more viscous.
- Day Three: Repeat Day 2 instructions.
- Day Four: Repeat Day 2 instructions.
- Day Five: Repeat Day 2 instructions.
- Day Six: Do the same as on days 2-5 but instead of every 24 hours discard and feed it every 12 hours.
- Day Seven: Continue today with the same process used on day six; every 12 hours. Today you should have enough yeast and bacteria present to make sourdough bread or other sourdough recipes. Sometimes it can be that you need to work with a little more to get it where you want it as far as rise but that depends on how your stater did in the first week.