Sourdough Starter Recipes

Add this to some already established sourdough starter. Leave lightly covered and watch it bubble and rise. Add to your bread, waffles pancake or muffin recipes.

Amazingly easy to make, delicious to eat, and excellent bread for diabtetics! Once the starter is active, you are ready to go. Please note that this is NOT a quick bread recipie - it takes time but is well worth it! *******there are 2 methods listed - both work equally as well.

The problem with using sourdough starter as an ingredient in baking recipes is that you can't really find a starter with nutritional facts. I have included two items here to approximate real sourdough nutrients. *The probiotics and nutritional yeast. But sourdough starter is actually a symbiotic culture of yeast and lactic acid bacteria similar to those in probiotics. The only food items that are used to make a sourdough starter are flour (which includes the wild yeasts and bacteria present) and water bottled or tap, and time to grow the culture. The reason this is listed under Vegetarian is that there is not a category for bread - at least not yet.

If you want to know more about sourdough baking I recommend the following sites:

The Sourdough Companion - includes a starter blog and lots of how to - site is in Australia - members are Worldwide:
http://sourdough.com/
>The Fresh Loaf - both sourdough and other baking - great site! The following articles are very technical but also help to understand the mechanics and chemistry of sourdough, and a special way to supercharge creating your own starter:

The Pinapple solution part I -
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/10856
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Also part II -
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/1090
1/pineapple-juice-solution-part-2

old fashion sourdough starter

This recipe used Goldrush Old Fashioned San Francisco Style Sourdough Starter culture, but should work with just about any culture. However, if you use another culture it would be wise to use their directions rather than this tor best results.

Easy to do and to continue...and there are loads of recipes using sourdough starter.

These pancakes are light and fluffy.

Delicious sourdough rolls from starter

Sourdough starter, to use in recipes.

Instead of throwing away that discard when you feed your sourdough starter, make pancakes!

Recipe uses leftover sourdough starter. It also uses Nido powder instead of milk (either works) . Assumes that it makes approximately 10 pancakes

Make bread with lower glycemic index, and the very best pancakes ever!

This is a basic recipe for a sourdough starter that is made from the yeast that naturally occurs on grains. You can always buy or obtain natural starter from the web or your friends, but with patience you can create your own. You will need to let your starter develop for at least 7-10 days before you plan to bake. There are many health benefits to eating natural Sourdough breads or even breads with a longer fermentation. The yeast and lactic bacteria present in the dough break down starches and allow us to get more of the goodness from the grain. Sourdough bread is lower on the Glycemic index and possibly easier to digest for people with a low gluten tolerance. It is easier to develop a starter with flour that has had the least amount of processing. So using an organic unbleached or whole grain flour should work best.

Great thin crust pizza to use up sourdough starter!

Starter:
http://recipes.sparkpeople.com
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R>Bread - original recipe:
http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/
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>Bread - lightened recipe:
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