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A Sourdough Starter begins with Wild Yeast
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Published 2025
Wild Yeast is found naturally on flour and all grains. When the flour gets wet, the yeast comes to life. First order of business for the yeast—find a food source and start eating.
The starch and sugars in the flour are the perfect food for the yeast. They eat it, digest it, and burp out bubbles of CO2 to show their gratitude. Then they start to multiply.
It all happens by itself, and it happens all the time. It was happening over 5,000 years ago, which is the date historians cite for the first leavened breads.
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