If you love sourdough recipe but you are having a hard time making it right, then this article can help you create a delicious sourdough bread recipe. Within this article you will find the right recipe that you can use for baking sourdough bread. With the use of this recipe, there is a small amount of yeast that will be used for the starter. The starter is refreshed with the use of new feedings of water and flour with wild yeast and they are introduced as well as cultivated. The sour taste that you love about the sourdough bread comes from the action if the yeast and the friendly bacteria that is present within the dough.

You can also use commercial yeast rather than culturing wild yeast for a starter. This is easier if you will abandon your starter for few weeks, you can easily start another one once you have the time to do it.

Recipe for Starter

Ingredients to Prepare:

1 cup of warm water for about 110 degrees

1/4 teaspoon of yeast

1 cup of high gluten unbleached flour

All you need to do is to mix the starter well in a steel bowl or glass and cover it will plastic wrap, then set aside at a room temperature. You need to wait until the starter has doubles in size and bubbly, it can last for 4 to 6 hours before the starter double its size.

For the sponge:

1 cup of starter

3/4 cup of warm water

2 cups of flour

You need to mix the starter with water and flour, cover and set aside to allow fermentation until it has tripled its size. At a room temperature it can take about 4 to 8 hours or you can also place it inside a cool place for about 50 degrees all night. You can allow it to ferment inside your refrigerator all night, because a temperature of 40 to 50 degrees is the best temperature for friendly bacteria and they will become more active and that will give the sour taste of your sourdough bread.

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