This recipe is the first step of the Artisan Sourdough Bread recipe on page 206 of the THM Cookbook. You’re going to catch the wild yeasts of the air to make your starter… it’s going to take about a week, but it’s fun and easy! If this first steps sounds too involved for you, just google “rye starter” online. You can order it and not worry about creating it yourself in which case you’ll jump straight to the bread recipe. But for all my other crazy, adventurous peeps… here’s the ingredients needed to do it:
Wild Yeast Starter (E)
Description
This recipe is the first step of the Artisan Sourdough Bread recipe on page 206 of the THM Cookbook. You’re going to catch the wild yeasts of the air to make your starter… it’s going to take about a week, but it’s fun and easy! If this first steps sounds too involved for you, just google “rye starter” online. You can order it and not worry about creating it yourself in which case you’ll jump straight to the bread recipe. But for all my other crazy, adventurous peeps… here’s the ingredients needed to do it:
1 Starter
Ingredients
Instructions
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Combine 1 cup of rye flour with 1 cup of water in a sterilized nonmetal bowl. To sterilize, pour boiling water over bowl. Cover flour-water mix with a loose mesh material so no bugs can fly in. Put it on a counter where it has room to breathe— don’t stuff it in a cupboard.
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Every day for the next 7 days, add 1 cup water and rye flour to the mix and transfer it to a new sterilized nonmetal bowl. Alternate between two bowls for the seven-day period. Give it a little stir with a nonmetal stirring utensil.
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If after 7 days your mixture looks a little spongy or bubbly and smells pleasantly sour, then you should congratulate yourself and do a cartwheel, because you are the proud new owner of a Wild Yeast pet! That’s it—you did it!
Note
From page 207, Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook:
"If you look after your yeast well it can live for hundreds of years and you can pass it on to your grandchildren. If it just looks lifeless and half rotten then your first yeast attempt may have been unsuccessful. If after a few tries you can't seem to catch any, don't beat yourself up. Many areas are harder to obtain wild yeasts in than others. Order it online and be done with all the fuss. See tips at the end of this recipe for how best to look after your starter pet."
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Artisan Sourdough Bread recipe ingredients.
