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Sourdough Starter

The is the sponge that makes your bread rise and gives it the delicious sour flavor.
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Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 2½ cups white flour
  • 2½ cups warm filtered water I use filtered water because our water tastes awful, plus, if you have chlorine in your tap water, it may inhibit the starter.
  • 1 tablespoon instant yeast
  • 2 teaspoons sugar or honey

Method
 

  1. Mix all starter ingredients until you have a smooth batter.
  2. Poor into a good-sized crock or bowl. The starter will expand. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit for five days to ferment.
  3. Stir the starter daily. Don't worry if the liquid rises to the top. Just stir well.
  4. At the end of 5 days it is ready to use.
  5. Store in the refrigerator.