As I mentioned in our article about Bill’s sourdough pizza dough, he learned how to make a sourdough starter while taking a ...

A sourdough starter is a wad of wild yeasts that you make yourself using flour, water, and patience. It’s good for a lot more than just sourdough bread — you can scoop some out of the jar and ...

The loaf begins with a sourdough starter, often called a "mother," which is a mixture of wild yeast and Lactobacillus bacteria that feeds on flour and water. A sought-after starter may be passed ...

Baking sourdough bread can be a rewarding but sometimes tricky process. Success lies in knowing the essential ingredients, ...

The process of making sourdough bread begins with a sourdough starter. These starters are created when microbes – communities of bacteria and yeast – stabilize in a flour and water mixture. Known as a ...

Sourdough notably differs from most bread because it relies on this starter of wild microbes to help it rise instead of baker's yeast packets. Many sourdough starters are preserved over ...

Nailing a crusty and fluffy loaf of sourdough bread is a home baker’s dreamer. However, your sourdough starter can do more ...

Sourdough notably differs from most bread because it relies on this starter of wild microbes to help it rise instead of baker's yeast packets. Many sourdough starters are preserved over ...

But in sourdough, it’s wild yeasts found in flour that ... which makes the loaf get bigger. Because the yeast that develops in a starter metabolises sugars more slowly than instant baking ...

“Sourdough is naturally leavened bread, which means it doesn’t use commercial yeast to rise. Instead, it uses a ‘starter’ – a fermented flour and water mixture that contains wild yeast a ...