Tag: sourdough

So Someone Gave You Some Sourdough Starter

I get asked for starter a fair bit since I’ve had mine going for a couple of years now. Five? I think five. So you got some from me or from someone else. Great! Now what? Step One: Naming Your Starter Every starter must have a name. “Starter” is...

Crumpets

English muffins are American and a poor approximation of English crumpets. These aren’t that hard to make and a good use of your starter discard. And for a more complicated recipe…....

Discard Sandwich Sourdough

Rather than using your starter as a yeast, adds yeast and uses “non active” starter mainly for flavor. If you want to use active starter, eliminate the yeast and probably increase the initial rising time to 8+ hours and 1-2 hours for the after formed rising time. Photos...

Sourdough Pretzels 2

Originally found a variant of this on King Arthur’s site but could do without the commentary, ads, cookies, etc....

Pretzel Picture

You may note that I still can’t form a pretzel properly to save my life. They don’t look like turds this time, but they don’t really look like pretzels either....