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How To Make an Easy Sourdough Starter [No Scale Method]

Mel | Missouri Girl Home
Learn how to make a sourdough starter the easy way using just two ingredients (water and flour) and without a kitchen scale.
Prep Time 3 minutes
Total Time 3 minutes
Course Bread
Cuisine American

Equipment

  • 1 glass storage container (needs to hold at least 3 cups to allow for expansion). Two glass jars will make feeding easier but is not essential.
  • loose fitting lid
  • measuring cups

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup water filtered and warm
  • ½ cup rye flour
  • ½ cup white flour unbleached

Instructions
 

Make the sourdough starter

  • Combine the flours and warm filtered water in a glass container.
  • Give a quick stir.
  • Add a loose fitting lid.
  • Allow the starter to sit in a warm location for 12-24 hours (or until bubbles appear) then begin feeding the starter.

Feed the sourdough starter

  • To feed the starter you will add ¼ cup of your sourdough starter to a clean glass jar.
  • Add ¼ cup filtered warm water and ½ unbleached all-purpose flour.
  • Stir well and then place a loose fitting lid on top and place in a warm location (75-80 degrees Fahrenheit).
  • Feed the sourdough starter every 12 hours for the first 5 days and then decrease the feedings to 1 time per day.
  • If you are unable to feed the starter daily, or just need a break then place the sourdough starter into the refrigerator so it will go dormant.
  • When you are ready to resume baking, then remove the starter from the refrigerator and resume the same feeding schedule as described above (twice a day until the starter becomes very active and bubbly and then decreasing to one time per day).
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