Recipe: Yummy Bread with sourdough starter

Bread with sourdough starter. But where does the path to sourdough bread begin? Right in your own kitchen, with your own homemade sourdough starter. The method you'll read here for making sourdough starter isn't an exact match for the one you read on another site, or in a cookbook, or in your great-grandma's diary.

It takes minutes to provide my starter with fresh flour and water. It needs a medium, a sourdough starter, in order to be useful to bakers. This medium has to be constantly maintained and monitored. Easy to cook Bread with sourdough starter just using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients

1. 1 of part warm water.
2. 3 of parts flour (more or less).
3. of salt (1 tsp per 500 g flour).
4. of honey (1 tsp per 500 g flour).
5. of sourdough starter.
6. of whatever you like for flavor (e.g. anise, cloves, grated cheese, olives, etc.) optionally.

Wild yeast also likes cooler temperatures, acidic environments, and works much more slowly to proof breads. A lot has been written about sourdough starter cultures. You can find long and elaborate articles on how to make your own starter while using things like pineapple and grapes. A starter is a piece of dough which contains wild yeast and bacteria which you use to make your bread.

Bread with sourdough starter Directions

1. Using a large bowl, dissolve the sourdough starter in the warm water (it shouldn't be very hot)..
2. Add most of the flour, the salt and whatever spice you have chosen (if you like). Knead well and add as much flour as is necessary to make a dough that doesn't stick to your hands. Take care to not add too much flour because the bread will be very firm..
3. Knead for an additional 10'-15' minutes..
4. Set aside a piece of the dough to use as a starter for the next time you make bread. Cover the bowl with a clean towel and leave in a warm place (during winter, next to the fireplace or a slightly preheated oven, but make sure that it is not on) for 8-12 hours until it doubles in size..
5. Shape your dough into loaves and place in respective trays which you have brushed lightly with oil. Score the top with a knife and brush with a little water (at this point you can sprinkle with sesame seeds and press them a bit with your hand). Set them aside to rise once more..
6. Bake in a preheated oven at 200°C, for about 40' (depending on the oven and the size of the bread)..

Homemade sourdough bread begins with a sourdough starter. Bakers are known to covet a healthy starter and care for it like a treasured family heirloom. If you haven't made a sourdough starter before, this easy recipe is a good place to begin. A starter is a homemade fermented yeast for bread. A sourdough starter is a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY) like kombucha, water kefir, and milk kefir.