Once you've experienced the phenomenal flavor and crust of home-baked sourdough bread, you will never go back. We use this starter to make all of our bread, waffles and pancakes now, and are always happy to share it with others. All you need is flour and water to keep your starter alive and happy and make delicious bread! We've found it to be a very rewarding experience and economical to boot. :)
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What You Will Receive
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* Authentic Certified Organic Starter - 80g a generous amount of our Organic Rye Sourdough Starter - enough to start your own and have some extra to share! Packaged nicely and securely.
* Looking after Your Starter printed guidance
* Recipe for tasty pancakes
* Free email support for all your questions!
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About our Starter
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Our starter is meticulously cared for and fed with certified organic flours. It's been robust since the day we got it, and lends itself quite well to any flour (it should happily eat up whatever flour you feed it!).
This starter has produced beautiful breads with amazing gourmet flavors for us, and has a great rise, as all good starters should!
Although there are hundreds of different starters, Rye sourdough is one of the most famous sourdoughs in the world because of its coveted crust and distinct sour flavor.
*Note: Sourdough starter is expandable and will live and grow indefinitely with good care! You will never have to go buy yeast packets again (or sourdough starter)! You may also use whatever flour you wish for it, organic or not! The starter can also be used to make rolls, pita bread, ciabatta, english muffins, pancakes, waffles (easy and yummy!), pretzels, pizza, cake, cookies, donuts, bagels...the list goes on! If you need a break or if you are going on vacation, simply stick in the fridge or freezer, it will come back!
*This starter is kept in a clean home where organic, non-toxic cleaners are used and there are no toxic by-products in the air. We want to support and respect the health of our starters, ourselves and the world at large!
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Traveling To Its New Home (shipping)
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We pack our starter securely to ensure a successful journey to your home, wherever you may be. Upon arrival simply follow the step-by-step instruction guide on how to look after your starter.
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A Little Bit About Sourdough in General
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Is Sourdough Easy To Make?
Yes! All you need is flour and water! When we first acquired our starter we were a bit intimidated but soon realized there was no need to be! It is made even easier with our accompanying guide materials! With proper care, sourdough is extremely simple to maintain, and the bread is easy to bake! One of our personal favorite recipes is a very simple no-knead sourdough recipe!
Why Bother Making Real Sourdough?
It is completely different to the bland mush stores call bread. Authentic sourdough has a multidimensional flavor, crunchy crust, moist crumb and amazing texture. The name is a bit misleading and leads to the assumption that all sourdough is sour, but this is not so! It's the process you choose that determines the flavor. You can bake a mild sweet bread with it (yes, sweet!), a tangy mouth-puckering sour bread or anything in between! It has a lower glycemic load than 'normal' bread as well!
Often times store-bought sourdough is a hybrid (spiked with yeast powder and enzymes.). Store-bought can even be simulated to mimic the flavor of sourdough instead of using actual sourdough! When you bake with this, you get a fresh oven-hot authentic piece of bread that is truly hard to come by! This is the real thing! We make the most delicious waffles each week with this too, even our dogs howl for some! It's the way bread was originally made and meant to be!
What Is Sourdough?
Sourdough is bread made with 'wild yeast'. It is the traditional fermentation of wheat, rye or other grains through a simple yet amazing symbioses of bacteria and yeast which leavens/ferments a flat piece of dough into an incredible slice of bread naturally! Wild yeast is what every civilization used for over 5,000 years before the adjunct of the single yeast strain called 'baker's yeast' just 100 years ago at the turn of the 20th century. Egyptian hieroglyphics even show production of beer and bread! Baker's yeast was invented for the purpose of singling out one type of yeast for its strong rising ability and its relative reliability, but at a great loss of the unique flavor and natural process of traditional wild yeast breads.