Gentlemen: Start Your Starter

Friday is generally Feed The Sourdough Starter Day. 

This is maintenance so that there is leavening agent in the garage fridge. 

For each jar: 

120g water in a bowl

100g old starter

  10g Bob’s Old Mill Rye flour

 90g King Arthur high protein bread flour

Whisk and return to clean jar with airlock lid. 

First picture was noonish. Second just now- 7 hours later. 

 

Discard starter makes the best buttermilk sourdough pancakes on the planet. Great bread and pizza dough too. 

The jar on the right is three year old San Francisco starter from Amazon. 

The jar on the left is from a friend in Algoma, via a sister in Michigan, who got it from a New York City 3 Star Michelin Chef, who brought it from France 42 years ago. 

Raising a toast to Lactobacillus fermentation…

Pro Tips - you can go away for 2-3 weeks and your starter will respond well to a feeding.   I keep a batch of each in the freezer as backup. Just in case.

Use bottled water if you are on treated city water.