The starter is finally ready to make bread. Sourdough starters take time and feeding to grow a strong and healthy community of yeasts. Pancakes, muffins, doughnuts and crumpets are all possible before the starter is mature but you have to wait a while before making bread or it simply won’t rise,
I went looking for a simple and (relatively) quick method this time, as part of the reason I don’t make a lot of bread is the time factor, especially while I am working. I found this You Tube video and it is amazingly easy to follow.
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Day seven starter, ready to make bread
3 cups of flour (plain flour, bread flour, spelt, rye, it doesn’t seem to matter)
1 cup water (plus a little dash more sometimes)
1/2 a teaspoon of salt
Sourdough starter
Just mix the flour, water and salt together into a dough. Watch the You Tube video to get the knead-in-the-bowl technique, it does make things less messy. When the dough is a sticky mass that sort of sticks together cover it and leave sitting on the bench (or in an esky with cooler bricks like she does on the video).
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My sticky mess….er…mass of dough
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Covered over and left on the bench while I go out and rake leaves
I kneaded the dough for about two minutes then I plonked it out onto a piece of baking paper that had been sprayed with water and lifted it into a bowl to rise…again.
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The big yellow thing is an enameled cast iron Dutch oven, it’s a heavy piece of equipment
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My dough on wet baking paper rising in its bowl
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The final loaf
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Close up of the final loaf
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It made a fine textured, very flavourful bread
I love sourdough bread! Yours looks amazing! Thanks for sharing this recipe 🙂
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No problem. I love it too. This was an excellent loaf, they aren’t all this good. I think I will keep this method.