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Sourdough Starter Tips

Sourdough Starter Tips — a community recipe on Potlikkr.

Ingredients

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Method (preview)

1. 1

   After you put a live starter in the fridge it will separate into two components. The gray looking liquid on top is the alcohol which was formed in the fermentation process. It was called "hooch" by the miners in Alaska and the Yukon and some miners were known to drink the stuff after their supply of whiskey ran out and they had nothing else alcoholic to drink. The white stuff on the bottom is the residue of the flour after the protein has been fermented out.

2. 2

   All you have to do is stir your starter up real good and combine a small portion of of it with flour and water. Allow it to ferment at about 85 degrees until it is all bubbly and sour smelling and your starter is ready to bake with again.