Making Hubby Happy

YAY! Today is the day and my hubby will be so happy. Yes today is day 5 so I have fed the starter this morning and then this afternoon I will make up sour dough bread. Tomorrow I will post pictures and directions for making sourdough bread.

Here is my mom’s starter recipe – it does not call for potato flakes so I used it this time.

1 cup plain flour

1 cup hot water (115 degree any hotter and you will kill the yeast)

1 package yeast (or 2 teaspoons bulk yeast)

Pour water in to bowl and sprinkle yeast on top. Let set until yeast is dissolved. Add shifted flour and stir until well mixed. Store in glass jar and cover with cloth. I use a clean kitchen towel and secure it with a rubber band around the mouth of the jar. Set on counter out of draft and stir daily for 5 days on 5^th day feed. Wait a couple of hours until it has bubbled and done its thing then make bread or store in refrigerator feeding every 5 days. 

If you make bread you will still have starter left. Store in the refrigerator and fed every 5 days and you will always have starter. My grandmother and mother had starter that had been made back during the cave man age and they were still using it when I was a kid. Ok so maybe it wasn’t that old but once you make it up you will have starter as long as you feed it.

Hint: use a jar double the amount of starter you make. If you only make a single batch then a quart jar will do, if you double it then you will need a gallon jar. The starter will bubble up and you do not want it overrunning the jar. It needs space to grow.

How to feed:

Mix 1 cup plain flour and 1 cup hot water then pour into room temperature starter. I learned the hard way that if you add warm feeder to cold starter it does not do as well. What I usually do is set my starter out of the refrigerator on night 4 and then the morning of day 5 feed it and make bread.  If you do not make bread you may want to give away a cup of starter or throw a cup away. If you don’t then you will have more starter than you know what to do with.