Keeping your Sourdough Starter Alive and Healthy

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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Josey Baker Bread

By Josey Baker

Published 2014

  • About

If you want to bake only once in a while (once every couple of weeks or less), your starter can live in the fridge.

Ingredients

Foodstuff

  • sourdough starter
  • water
  • whole-wheat flour

Method

1. Feed your starter. Every few weeks take it out of the fridge and throw out most of it—compost that stuff. Leave roughly a tablespoon’s worth of starter in the container and add:

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