How to Make a Sourdough Starter — Nourished

Sourdough Starter / at ranch

I should do this again?
Always had some ready to go at the ranch!

I made our hard cheese and cottage cheese, ground all our own flour, made our own mayo, ketchup, pickles, Did all the milking, tapped sugar maples, boiled down the syrup and hard sugar, butchered and canned chicken and beef.

Now that was hard for me as I gave everyone a name:( I was off meat for a few months after each round, so my family almost ate it all before I got around to tasting Alfy or Mr. Red!
I did a good job!


How to Make a Sourdough Starter — Nourished
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Wondering how to make a sourdough starter or where to find a good sourdough starter recipe?
It’s easy – all you need is flour, water and time.

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Sourdough Starter

Ingredients

• flour
• established sourdough starter (available here), optional
• filtered water

Instructions

1. Starting the sourdough: Whisk 1/4 cup flour with sourdough starter (if using) and 3 tablespoons filtered water in a small bowl. Pour this into a jar, and let it sit for twelve hours. Twelve hours later, whisk in 1/2 cup flour with 1/3 cup filtered water and continue adding 1/2 cup flour and 1/3 cup water every twelve hours for one week until your starter is brisk and bubbling. As you feed your starter, take care to whisk in the flour and water thoroughly into the established starter  aerating the starter will help to yield the best and most reliable results.
2. To accommodate for expansion of the sourdough when its fed, make sure that your jar is only half full after each feeding. If you’ve made too much sourdough starter for the capacity of your jar, pour some off and use it in sourdough biscuits, sourdough pancakes or sourdough crackers
3. Maintaining the sourdough: After a week, your sourdough should be sturdy enough to withstand storage. If you bake infrequently (that is: if you bake less than once a week), you can store your sourdough in the refrigerator, bring it to room temperature and feed it well about twelve hours before you plan to bake. If you bake more frequently  every day or a few times a week you can store your sourdough at room temperature and feed it with 1/2 cup flour and 1/3 cup filtered water once a day.
4. Special considerations: If a brown liquid appears floating on top of your sourdough starter, simply pour it off. Sourdough bakers call this liquid  hooch, and it is harmless; however, it often signifies that you’ve fed your starter too much water in relation to flour or have let your starter go too long between feedings. Sourdough starters are relatively resilient, and bounce back quickly once you resume proper care of them.