Making a homemade sourdough starter is a fairly simple process, but it can also bring up some questions, and one of those questions is how often you need to feed your sourdough starter. It can be a bit tricky sometimes, though, to answer the question of how often you should feed your starter because it… Continue reading How Often Should You Feed a Sourdough Starter?
Category: Sourdough
Over 30 Sourdough Recipes to Make with a Sourdough Starter
If you’ve ever made your own sourdough starter from wild yeast for making homemade sourdough bread you’ve probably found yourself wondering what else you can use it for besides just bread. And if you’ve been maintaining a sourdough starter for any length of time, then you know that it can multiply pretty quickly when you… Continue reading Over 30 Sourdough Recipes to Make with a Sourdough Starter
How to Make A Backup Sourdough Starter
If you like baking with a sourdough starter, the best thing you can do to make sure you can continue using it for a long time is to make a backup sourdough starter. Even though sourdough starters are usually pretty resilient and hard to kill, if you neglect feeding it for too long, or if… Continue reading How to Make A Backup Sourdough Starter
Easy Homemade Sourdough Bread Recipe from 1869
If you’re not used to baking homemade bread, making sourdough bread might sound a bit intimidating at first, but once you get used to it, this bread is really much easier than “regular” yeasted bread. This easy homemade sourdough bread only needs to be kneaded once, and after that you can just put it… Continue reading Easy Homemade Sourdough Bread Recipe from 1869
Tips for Using and Maintaining a Sourdough Starter – Part 2
In my last post, I started listing some of my favorite sourdough starter tips. Here’s the second half of the list: Don’t Follow Instructions to the Letter If you do a google search on how to make a sourdough starter, chances are you’ll find several different ways to do it. All of the different… Continue reading Tips for Using and Maintaining a Sourdough Starter – Part 2
Tips for Using and Maintaining a Sourdough Starter – Part 1
It took me a long time to finally start making my own sourdough starter and sourdough bread. It was something I had wanted to do for awhile, but it seemed so complicated, and I just kept on procrastinating because I didn’t really know how to do it. Once I actually gave it a try, though,… Continue reading Tips for Using and Maintaining a Sourdough Starter – Part 1
How to Make Homemade Yeast
For a long time, I had been confused about the subject of yeast. The only yeast I knew about was the little packet of active dry yeast or rapid rise yeast that I would sprinkle into my dough. But then I started collecting 19th century cookbooks and found recipes that called for “one gill of… Continue reading How to Make Homemade Yeast