Starters & Levains

<p>Fermenting flour and water to rise bread with</p>
day 1, immediately after adding green stuff

experiment: spiking my starter with 'Primal Defense'

My six-year-old daughter takes a probiotic supplement called Primal Defense (purchased at health-food stores) in order to improve...

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My unbleached flour (yippee!)

Success in my starter...but no name yet.

I've found my unbleached flour....I'm sooooooo happy. It's gorgeous and creamy too. ...and this is the perky starter...looking...

Is my starter ready?

Is the only indication that my starter is ready is its doubling in volume? And if I don't do anything with it at this time what...

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Turpentine and thanks!

Hello all! I just found this site and am impressed by all the great info here. I was going to post about the turpentine smell...

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Does a live starter need fresh air when being fed?

I've had my starter for over a year now (I got it from breadtopia.com) and while I don't think it's dead, it's always been rather...

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Dry starter reactivatio

Hi, i just received my dry starter from Graham in the post. In the insturctions is tells me to feed the start at least once...

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Purchased Dried Starter Reactivation Survey

1) I see lots of people promoting Sourdough International's dry cultures (sourdo.com) on the Internet; has anyone had any...

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pinkish grey colour in starter

I am at day 4 of beginning my starter and by the end of each 24 hr period it appears to have a faint pinky colour to it. Is this...

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going away

The quasi-starter has now gone, and I've managed to find unbleached flour (yipppeee!) so I've started to follow the instructions...

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I Confess: I Killed a Starter

This was the simplest of starters: unbleached white flour, a little wheat flour, cumin and water. I'd used and used it, nurtured...

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