Bake your first sourdough 🤤

[UKSkydiver]

500g bread flour
10g salt
50g bubbly starter
350ml water (that's been boiled and cooled)

Sh!t - only 50g starter..... I was expecting something like 250g as per my Hollywood book recipes - although he uses 375g flour which makes it a little closer in total.

 

[JFB]

Day six
You know the drill
Repeat the building steps.
I'm going to do one more step tomorrow.
Then mix the dough on day 8, Wednesday

 

[JFB]

Sh!t - only 50g starter..... I was expecting something like 250g as per my Hollywood book recipes - although he uses 375g flour which makes it a little closer in total.

50-100g seems to be most common amounts.
I may give those ratios a go and see how it turns out

 

[JFB]

This is a picture a mate just sent me.
I coached him through the process first lock down
I'm now getting him on the home brew

 

[eyuptm]

This is a picture a mate just sent me.
I coached him through the process first lock down
I'm now getting him on the home brew
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So, when I feed the mother, it bubbles up after a couple of hours, then by the next feed time, it's reduced back to just above where it was- is this ok, or should it stay "fizzy"?

 

[JFB]

So, when I feed the mother, it bubbles up after a couple of hours, then by the next feed time, it's reduced back to just above where it was- is this ok, or should it stay "fizzy"?

Sounds perfect, ideally when we make the bread you want it at its bubbly peek, but if it's gone over it's not a problem

 

[JFB]

What to do with your spent starter??
The fav in our house is to just pan fry blobs of it.
Tastes amazing as a bread for your Curry's. Just sprinkle with spices and flaked almonds.
This morning we fried with seeds and honey.
Tastes great on its own or add a poached egg and mushrooms

 

[eyuptm]

We baking today? If so, I may delay feeding until later- then it's at full fizz!!! Great thread, BTW, thanks!!

 

[JFB]

Day 7
Last feed
Tomorrow we're going to mix in about this time.
And then leave the dough for a nice long overnight prove.

 

[JFB]

We baking today? If so, I may delay feeding until later- then it's at full fizz!!! Great thread, BTW, thanks!!

Mixing in tomorrow, feel free to do a cheeky early morning feed for maximum fizz!
I'm to lazy and won't bother though

 

[Pezza24]

Just mixed up my day one starter. Way behind sorry but I just found the bread flour and it jogged my memory.

 

[JFB]

Great thread, BTW, thanks!!

Let's wait and see some results first!

 

[JFB]

Dough mixing day today
Don't forget to pre boil 350ml of water..

 

[RichardM]

Dough mixing day today
Don't forget to pre boil 350ml of water..
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Why do you boil the water? I've never made sourdough but have made plenty of bread with yeast and have always used tap water.

 

[MDalton]

I am massively late to this party. Had got into the habit during lockdown 1 and then starter brew got disposed of at the end of August. I've just got a 16Kg bag of strong white flour, so now have little excuse not to get back on it. (PS, I found that swapping some of the strong white for rye flour helped create some interesting flavour and texture).

 

[UKSkydiver]

Why do you boil the water? I've never made sourdough but have made plenty of bread with yeast and have always used tap water.

As far as the info I have gleaned this week, chlorine and chloramine in tap water is there to kill baddies.
You don't want the possibility of that affecting the wild yeast that you've been lovingly culturing.

 

[MDalton]

Why do you boil the water? I've never made sourdough but have made plenty of bread with yeast and have always used tap water.

I didn't boil any of the water when I made it last year, never even crossed my mind. Now someone has mentioned it, I will give it a try with my new batch and see if I can notice any difference. I'm sure UKSkydiver has the right answer above though in terms of the logic

 

[RichardM]

As far as the info I have gleaned this week, chlorine and chloramine in tap water is there to kill baddies.
You don't want the possibility of that affecting the wild yeast that you've been lovingly culturing.

That'll be why I treat my brewing liquor with a campden tablet, but to stop an off flavours from the chlorine rather than to stop it killing my yeast.

 

[JFB]

Cool so it dough night!
500g bread flour
10g salt
350ml water
50g starter
I find the easiest way is to mix 300ml of water with the flour and salt.
Weigh the starter then add remaining water, stir together then mix this into your dough.
We then leave to slowly ferment over night.
There's the option to give it a few lift and twists once an hour a few times. But really don't worry.
Feed you starter and pop it in the fridge.

 

[JFB]

Oh and cover with a damp cloth or something.