Easy Wheat Sourdough Starter

Total Time: 6 hrs Preparation Time: 6 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 cup warm mineral water
• 1/4 teaspoon yeast
• 1 cup whole wheat flour (gold medal-stone ground)

Recipe

• 1 for some reason it will not show 1/4 teaspoon of yeast in the ingredients. so please so this amount. any is fine,i used bread machine.
• 2 mix everything in a glass bowl or jar.
• 3 plastic is also fine but it will take slightly longer.
• 4 i use a plastic spatula to mix, some use chop sticks. do not use anything metal to stir.
• 5 cover with plastic wrap or poke a hole in jar lid.
• 6 sit it aside and let it work until doubled and bubbly. 4-6 hours.
• 7 .
• 8 how to feed your new starter:.
• 9 take 1 tablespoon of starter before using the rest and mix with 1/4 cup water 1/4 cup flour in a new jar or bowl. use the same methods listed above for mixing.
• 10 12 hours later refeed (doubling the.
• 11 starter) and repeat this until you have the amount of starter you want built up. i always try and adjust this so that there are at least a few doublings of the starter before i actually incorporate it into a dough.
• 12 .
• 13 spring water-do not use fresh tap water.
• 14 take 1 1/4 cup and heat to a bowl and let sit on your counter overnight. measure and use as you would spring water.