Sourdough Starter

Sourdough starter

Sourdough Starter

Yield: Around 550g of sourdough starter
Prep Time: 4 days
Total Time: 4 days

My recipe for my sourdough starter.

Ingredients

  • 120g Rye Flour
  • 150g Strong White Flour
  • 10g Maple Syrup
  • 270g Tepid Water

Instructions

Day 1

  1. Mix together 20g of rye flour with 20g of tepid water and 5 g maple syrup. Combine well it should look like a thick batter.
  2. Leave on your kitchen counter for 24 hours covered with a damp cloth ( in order to work your starter needs to be in contact with the air but not dry out). You should see bubbles appearing.

Day 2

  1. Mix together 50g of rye flour with 50g of tepid water.
  2. Add to the previous batter.
  3. Cover again for 24 hours.

Day 3

  1. Mix together 50g of rye flour with 50g of strong white flour and 100g of tepid water.
  2. Add to the previous batter.
  3. Cover again for 24 hours.

Day 4 and final Day

  1. Mix together 100g of strong white flour and 100g of tepid water.
  2. Add to the previous batter.

It is ready to use.

Notes

This is the recipe I use and a result of different experiment. You can totally swap for different flours, I replaced a few time the rye by strong white flour or wholemeal strong flour, replaced the white flour by malthouse....

I use the maple syrup, in the original recipe from Kaiser I used to follow it was honey, but for those days when I want to be vegan and I do love maple syrup I made a swap. I might do a try with apple butter soon as well.

Once I use the sourdough starter I pop the lid on and keep it the fridge after feeding it 50g flour 50g tepid water. As I am baking with it every week it makes more sense for me. Before making bread I take it out 24 hours in advance, mix the batter and I feed it with a 50g of flour (there I tend to experiment with different flour) and 50g tepid water. It would be ready to use the next day.

My sourdough starter in my fridge is around 6 months old now.

Just like a plant take care of it every week, feed it even if not using it and it will give back by producing amazing breads.

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