Easy Homemade Sourdough Starter
I've used Carl's Friends Oregon Trail Sourdough starter for about 5 years. It's really good, very vigorous. But I wanted to try something else.
I tried several times to create a starter from wild yeasts, even using the pineapple juice method.
Either it wouldn't work, or I would get a really weak starter. Frustrating.
In desperation, I decided to try something else. I read years ago in Sunset magazine about a pure yogurt starter. That sounded interesting, but I didn't want to use a pure yogurt starter that required feeding with yogurt.
Here's what I came up with. I have started this sourdough starter twice, as an experiment, and each time, within 5-days, I was baking sourdough bread.
I use buttermilk, yogurt, a little rye flour, a pinch of yeast and all-purpose flour to get the sourdough starter going, but I only feed the starter all-purpose flour and water to sustain it. I give it all of these cultures to start with and let them fight it out. ;-) In the end, it makes a starter as good as Carls Oregon Trail starter.
Buttermilk Yogurt Sourdough Starter
1 cup Buttermilk, make sure the label says live cultures
3 Tbsp Plain Yogurt, make sure the label says live cultures
1 cup All-Purpose Flour
1 Tbsp Rye Flour
pinch of Instant Yeast
Mix well. Allow to sit on counter in loosely covered container for about a week.
Feed daily 1/2 cup All-Purpose Flour and 1/4 cup Water. Mix well. Discard excess, if needed. It will bubble up and overflow sometimes, so I keep the container sitting in a pie tin to catch any overflow.
After about 4 or 5 days of feeding, the starter will smell sour and be very vigorous.
I use 1/2 a cup of the starter to make a sourdough bread.
When active, bubbly and sour smelling, store covered in the fridge if you are not going to make some bread.
Revive Sourdough Starter and make a loaf of bread at least once a week.
Remove starter from the fridge, stir in 1/2 cup of flour and 1/4 cup water. Bring to room temperature and allow starter to get bubbly. Use 1/2 cup to make bread.
I've used Carl's Friends Oregon Trail Sourdough starter for about 5 years. It's really good, very vigorous. But I wanted to try something else.
I tried several times to create a starter from wild yeasts, even using the pineapple juice method.
Either it wouldn't work, or I would get a really weak starter. Frustrating.
In desperation, I decided to try something else. I read years ago in Sunset magazine about a pure yogurt starter. That sounded interesting, but I didn't want to use a pure yogurt starter that required feeding with yogurt.
Here's what I came up with. I have started this sourdough starter twice, as an experiment, and each time, within 5-days, I was baking sourdough bread.
I use buttermilk, yogurt, a little rye flour, a pinch of yeast and all-purpose flour to get the sourdough starter going, but I only feed the starter all-purpose flour and water to sustain it. I give it all of these cultures to start with and let them fight it out. ;-) In the end, it makes a starter as good as Carls Oregon Trail starter.
Buttermilk Yogurt Sourdough Starter
1 cup Buttermilk, make sure the label says live cultures
3 Tbsp Plain Yogurt, make sure the label says live cultures
1 cup All-Purpose Flour
1 Tbsp Rye Flour
pinch of Instant Yeast
Mix well. Allow to sit on counter in loosely covered container for about a week.
Feed daily 1/2 cup All-Purpose Flour and 1/4 cup Water. Mix well. Discard excess, if needed. It will bubble up and overflow sometimes, so I keep the container sitting in a pie tin to catch any overflow.
After about 4 or 5 days of feeding, the starter will smell sour and be very vigorous.
I use 1/2 a cup of the starter to make a sourdough bread.
When active, bubbly and sour smelling, store covered in the fridge if you are not going to make some bread.
Revive Sourdough Starter and make a loaf of bread at least once a week.
Remove starter from the fridge, stir in 1/2 cup of flour and 1/4 cup water. Bring to room temperature and allow starter to get bubbly. Use 1/2 cup to make bread.
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