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A sourdough starter is created by mixing flour and water, and then allowing the microorganisms — wild yeasts and bacteria — that live in the flour and air to thrive and multiply. Over time, a stable population of these microorganisms develops. But where does the path to sourdough bread begin? Right in your own kitchen, with your own homemade sourdough starter.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sourdough bread levain (starter) using 4 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sourdough bread levain (starter):
- Get 60 g fermented apple water
- Make ready 60 g flour, any available in your kitchen
- Make ready 5 g honey or sugar, option
- Take if levain is too liquidly, add more flour. Too dry, add some water
Not only is microbiology+food fun, but you need to "feed" the starter regularly and it's apparently bad. Levain, or levain starter, is a leavening agent made from a mixture of flour and water and used to bake bread. The flour and water mixture takes on the wild However, not all levain starters impart the pronounced sour flavors that are characteristic of traditional sourdough bread. The starter is added to bread doughs to raise them instead of using commercial yeast (active dry or instant yeast).
Steps to make Sourdough bread levain (starter):
- Mix the flour, water and honey well. Put the mixture in a container or a jar and leave it without lid, but a breathable cloth on the top with a rubber band, at room temp. until the volume the doubled and bubbly. It would be taking 2 days. Rest of the water can be stored in the fridge until making another levain/starter. More fermenting as a result. Quantity of the ingredients is up to you. Making bigger one, like 100g each, would be fine. Just think how often you make a bread in a week.
- Decide not gonna bake a bread today, just keep the jar in the fridge, tightly lid on. You don't need to feed everyday, maybe once a week. But ideal to check the jar sometime. If the levain is too liquidly, add some flour and stir well, if too dry, add some water.
- This is not overstated that after you made this levain, you could keep baking breads forever. Next, see No.13463352-fermented-apple-water-for-sourdough-breads. I'll show you another easy way of sourdough bread baking soon!
The flour and water mixture takes on the wild However, not all levain starters impart the pronounced sour flavors that are characteristic of traditional sourdough bread. The starter is added to bread doughs to raise them instead of using commercial yeast (active dry or instant yeast). However, sourdough can be a bit of a misnomer. I also refer to my starter as a levain because most people equate sourdough with the infamous San Francisco-style sourdough breads. Whatever you call it - it is the secret to authentic artisan bread.
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