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Drying Starter

Drying Starter — a community recipe on Potlikkr.

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   Have been reading the discussion of sourdough breads and starters and thought you might be interested to know that starter can be dried. You might not want to use the starter for awhile and "put it in limbo" until you want to use it again; you may need to move; you may have a valuable starter that you would hate to lose; or you may want to share your starter with someone who lives several hundred or thousand miles away. Sending dry starter is just like mailing a small package of flour, you can even do it in an envelope, as I have done. The only caveat is that it cannot be dried in very humid climates, and cannot be dried in a food dehydrator because the heat will kill the yeast. If you live in a borderline-humid climate you may be able to dry it in cold weather when your furnace lowers humidity - it would certainly be worth a try

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   DRYING SOURDOUGH STARTER