Natural or Sourdough Starter

Name: Natural or Sourdough Starter
Yield: Makes Slightly more than 2 Cups Starter
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon active dry yeast, softened in 1 tablespoon barely warm water and 1 tablespoon flour (optional; to help expedite rising and attenuate sourness); 1 cup finished seed culture (opposite); ½ cup barely warm water; 1 ½ cups flour

Preparation info

Makes Slightly more than
2 Cups
Starter

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking

By James Peterson

Published 2007

About

This is both the natural starter and the sourdough starter called for in the recipe that follows, depending on whether you feed the seed culture after it froths or before it almost dies.

Ingredients

1 ½ cups flour
1 cup finished seed culture (opposite)
½ cup<

Starter
Vegan
Bread

Method

Put the flour in a bowl, pour the seed culture over it, and stir to combine. Pour the water over the mixture and stir to combine (mixed method only). Add the yeast mixture if you’re using it and mix until all the flour is moistened. Using a stand mixer fitted with the paddle blade, knead for 2 minutes to moisten the flour further. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise at room temperature for abo