Starters & Levains

<p>Fermenting flour and water to rise bread with</p>

The oldest starter?

Hi Everyone! Just for a bit of fun, and out of interest.... who here thinks they have the oldest (or knows about the oldest,...

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How to make my sourdough leaven starter dough?

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Starters a year old

My starters turned one year old this month and they're still going strong. I still don't have a camera so I can't post any...

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organic grape starter

Last summer I made to starters from organic grapes. I read about this in a book by Nancy silvermann. the first was made from...

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Starter flavour

Hi there, I am a longtime visitor to this site but never posted. This is really more of an observation than a question but am...

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Too active starter?

Hello I've just stumbled across this forum having started a bit of a sourdough experiment. I think I might have the opposite...

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Stiff vs Liquid Starter

After reading LeadDog's and Davo's posts here , I thought we could have a whole thread to talk about Stiff vs Liquid Starter...

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my first home sour starter

these are off my camera phone, but you can make out where it is.

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Experience with a Stiff Starter

I'm making bread for the first time with a firm starter, i.e. 1T batter starter (which is in active mode), 1T water plus 1/2 C...

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Starter Smell

I've been expanding a dormant starter over the last couple of days, I've noticed a slight alcoholic smell, that I haven't noticed...

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