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Sourdough starter success!

Sourdough Starter and Baking Bread

Like many people stuck at home during the coronavirus event, I decided to play around with sourdough. This requires making a sourdough starter, which is a 7- to 8-day process that creates the cultivates the wild yeast in a form that can be used for baking. Since wild yeast are present in all flour, the easiest way to make a starter is simply by combining flour and water and letting it sit for several days.

Note: This is an ongoing post that will be updated intermittently for a week or so, with the post date being the day that it starts.

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