Wild yeast starter

How to Make Sourdough Starter recipe using flour and water. No special equipment, with simple to follow instructions for making and storing.

You don't need commercial yeast to make a delicious loaf of bread! Bake homemade bread with wild yeast from scratch with honey water or fruit water.

Capturing wild yeast is easy once you know the right technique to use. Morning Chores shows you two ways to capture wild yeast.

The best breads are made with a natural yeast starter. It is an easy way to have yeast on hand. It also breaks down the grain to make bread more digestible.

Yeast water is a great compliment to your sourdough starter. It delivers bread with the same qualities, except the sourness.

Bubbly, fizzy, and just a bit murky, making a wild yeast starter can seem a little daunting, but it's one of the easiest kitchen projects you can undertake. There's only a single step: sealing fruit into a jar filled with water. And then you wait. In less than a week, you have a yeasty starter you can use to bake bread.Fruits, vegetables, and even wild herbs are all sources for wild yeast, but dried fruit is one of the easiest for newcomers to use. Figs, apricots, and raisins work well.

The average person doesn’t give much thought to yeast – after all, yeast is yeast, right? We use it to make bread, it’s used to create alcoholic beverages, it comes in a package from the store. What more is there to know? Like many of our modern conveniences, there is a wild partner to it – and harnessing the power of wild yeast is easy to do. Advertisement Yeast is everywhere around us, even out in the bush. It is […]

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Use our sourdough starter to make this sourdough bread recipe. There are four steps to this process:• Making sourdough starter (see our recipe)• Making the leaven• Making the dough• Baking the bread*If your sourdough starter has been in the refrigerator, take it out 2 days before you plan to make bread with it and feed it. (Again, see our starter recipe for how to do this.)

Make your own yeast with these simple instructions. It's an important skill because store-bought yeast has a relatively short shelf life.