How To Make Sourdough Starter | Good Housekeeping UK
Our sourdough starter recipe is easy – find out how to make it with this step-by-step video.
Ingredients:
Strong white flour
Mineral water
1. A sourdough starter is a live yeast mixture used to make bread. It can be maintained, or ‘fed’ and kept indefinitely. The simplest method uses flour and water.
2. On day 1: Put 75g (3oz) strong white flour and 75ml (3fl oz) cold mineral water in a container. Stir until well combined to make a smooth batter. Set aside at room temperature for 24hr. Don’t cover starter for first three days. This will allow it to pick up natural yeasts in air and give it a chance to breathe and grow.
3. On Days 2, 3 and 4: Feed starter with 75g (3oz) of strong white flour and 75ml (3fl oz) mineral water each day. Starter should be starting to bubble and smell sour. Cover loosely with a clean tea towel on fourth day and leave at room temperature.
4. On day 5: starter should be full of bubbles and ready to use. If it’s not, continue with feeding process for another couple of days.
5. Remove half starter and use to make sourdough. To maintain rest, “feed” it with 75g (3oz) new flour and 75ml (3fl oz) mineral water and put in a glass jar but don’t cover tightly.
6. If baking regularly, you’ll be removing some starter each time, so keep loosely covered at room temperature and ‘feed’ remaining starter each time.7 If baking less often, keep starter in fridge and maintain feeding process every 5 days or so, removing half and feeding with flour and water. A day before using it in baking, remove from fridge, uncover and bring up to room temperature to make it active and bubbly again.
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Easy Sourdough Starter Guide
Having a reliable Sourdough Starter is an essential for any serious baker. You can ask a friend to borrow some of theirs, but it's super easy to make your own. I've broken my process down into three stages to make it easy and demystify the process.
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RECIPE
CAPTURE STAGE
•DAY 1 (hour 0)
Into a tall container with a lid, measure 150g of filtered or distilled room temperature (68°-78°F or 20°-25°C) water and 100g of whole grain rye flour. Stir. Place a lid on the container, loosely, and let sit at room temperature.
•DAY 2 (24 hours later)
Remove/discard 1/2 of the rye flour/water mixture from yesterday (you don't need to be super precise at this point). Into your container with the remaining 1/2 of the mixture, add 150g room temp water and 100g whole grain rye flour. Stir to combine. Cover loosely and let sit at room temperature.
CULTIVATE STAGE
•DAY 3 (24 hours later, 48 hours into the process)
Measure 75g of your flour/water starter mix from yesterday and discard the rest . Return only the 75g of starter to your jar and add 75g of room temperature water, 35g of all purpose flour, and 35g of rye flour. Stir and cover with a loose lid. Let sit at room temperature.
•DAY 4 (24 hours later, 72 hours into the process)
Repeat process from day 3.
•DAY 5 (24 hours later, 96 hours into process)
Repeat process from day 3.
MAINTENANCE STAGE
•DAY 6 (24 hours later, 120 hours into process)
Your starter is now ready to use for baking. To maintain it (from this point through forever), measure 25g of starter from the day before and discard the rest. To that 25g of starter, add 50g room temp water and 50g ap flour. Stir, cover with a loose lid and let sit at room temperature. Do this daily, every 24 hours, to maintain your starter if you're a casual baker. If you bake a lot OR if you've had your starter in the fridge and you need to get it ready to bake again, feed once every 12 hours.
If you’re not baking often, keep your starter covered in the fridge and feed once monthly. When bringing it back into active rotation, feed it once every 12 hours for a couple of days until it’s bubbling and active again.
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0:00-1:19 Intro
1:20-2:53 Ingredients/What You'll Need
2:54-4:09 Capture Stage
4:10-6:01 Cultivation Stage
6:02 Maintenance Stage
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The ultimate best sourdough starter recipe tutorial:
- You’ll only need two ingredients and a bit of patience
- Mix together 60 grams of flour (you can use white, whole wheat or a mixture of text two) with 60 grams of water
- Once that’s combined, transfer to a see-through container at that is least 3 times bigger than the volume of your starter
- Place lid on top but don’t screw it on all the way
You want it covered so it doesn’t dry out, but it doesn’t need to be airtight because oxygen will help to jumpstart the fermentation process
- Let this sit at room temperature for 24 hours
- After the first day if you don’t see much fermentation activity, simply stir the starter, cover and allow to ferment at room temperature for another 24 hours
- At this point you should see a fair number of bubbles on the surface and the starter should have grown in size
- It will also likely smell slightly old gym socks but don’t worry! That just means it needs to be fed
- To do this, You’ll need to discard all but 30 grams of your starter then “feed” it with 60 grams of flour and 60 grams of water
- Mix it all together, cover and sit at room temperature for another day
- To speed up the process you could feed your starter twice a day as long as it has risen and fallen between feedings
- Continue this process for the next 8 or days until the starter consistently doubles in size and develops a sweet, yeasty smell
- Your starter is now ready, to use! Stay tuned to learn how to turn your starter into yummy sourdough bread
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Sourdough Starter the Easy Way that Actually Works with LESS Flour
Sourdough starter doesn't have to be difficult and you don't have to have a huge vessel that you're feeding flour to all the time. For the full written instructions, visit the blog here:
Starting a sourdough starter only takes two ingredients, flour, and water. But there are definitely some tips with what kind of flour, the temperature of your water, and other tips for keeping your sourdough starter alive and thriving.
The best news? You can keep just a very small amount in a pint-size jar to successfully bake bread and all sorts of other sourdough goodies.
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SOURDOUGH STARTER RECIPE + Maintenance Guide // Perfect for Beginners (step by step)
I walk you step by step through the 7 day process of creating a new sourdough starter from scratch. A kitchen scale is handy, but not required. A variety of flours can be used from all purpose (unbleached), to rye, whole wheat and einkorn. Scroll down for the printed version.
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The Ultimate Sourdough Starter Guide
This is a guide a lot of people have been asking me to do for a while. I really hope you guys find this helpful. Everyone's always asked me what my secret was to such an amazing starter. Ironically, the process is actually really easy to do. Feel free to comment on here or DM me on Instagram with any questions you might have about making this! Also feel free to send me pics of your active sourdough starters. I love seeing you guys getting into this stuff!
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