Making your own sourdough starter is very easy and very rewarding. Once you have it, you can have it for life!! It will only get better with age and develop its very own distinct flavor, which you can be proud of to call your own :)

Ivo’s Sourdough starter

Ingredients
o 50 gm whole wheat flour
o Up to 600 gm all purpose white flour (unbleached preferred but not required)
o Up to 650 gm of room temp water – 50 gm at a time

Instructions:
• Day 1: In a glass container, add 50 gm of whole wheat flour and 50 gm water, mix together, cover and let stand at room temp 24 hrs – this is the beginning of your starter
• Day 2: discard all but 50 gm of your starter. Then add to 50 gm of flour and 50 gm of water, to your 50 gm of starter, cover and let stand 24 hrs at room temp
• Day 3: repeat day 2
• Continue to repeat the day 2 process each day, until your starter doubles in volume. This typically takes about a week, but could take longer depending on conditions
• Once your starter is active and doubles, it is ready for use and for aging
• For aging, keep your starter in the refrigerator. It will need to be fed regularly. Weekly is o.k., more often is better and try not to let it go past 2 weeks without feeding.
• To feed your starter, you need to add the equivalent amount of flour and water. For example, if you have 100 gm of starter in your fridge, and it’s time to feed it, you will need to add 100 gm of flour and 100 gm of water. Mix, cover, and put back in fridge till ready to use or feed again
• Or – if you have 100 gm of starter, you can use some of it or discard some of it – so let’s say you use 70 gm, which leaves you with 30 gm of starter. To feed it, you follow the same rule, and give it equal amounts of flour and water i.e. feed it 30 gm of flour and 30 gm of water – mix well – cover and place back in fridge
• You can keep your starter feed and going for years and years. If you forget about it and it happens to go 3 or even 4 weeks in the fridge without feeding, just follow the same feeding rules noted above, and good chance it will come back to life 😊



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