The Sourdough School

Centre of Research & Education in Nutrition & Digestibility of Bread & the Gut Microbiome

Over forty years ago, a little girl fell head over heels in love with the bread she was served in the local village restaurant in the Dordogne. This simple passion led her to train as a baker, but when she stopped being able to eat industrial bread, she embarked on a lifetime of research to discover why she could digest sourdough. This has has grown into The Sourdough School as we know it today; leading the way in the application of the most up to date research, to make bread that nourishes.
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white sourdough starter

White Sourdough Starter Kit

£29.99

We’ve put together a kit containing just about everything you need to get started with a very special white sourdough starter. When you buy our sourdough starter kit it comes with a 50g pot of one of our Sourdough School French wheat starters for FREE. Starters are sent out twice a month – your kit will be sent out at the same time as the starter – and although we are based in the UK it can be shipped to over 60 countries worldwide. You have the option of adding a signed copy of ‘The Sourdough School’ book to this kit.

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When you buy our Sourdough Starter Kit you will receive a 50g pot of fresh wheat starter for FREE.

White Starter – sweet yogurt-like flavours – our original sourdough starter

My French white starter is one that I have been using since I was 11 year old and originates in the bakery I grew up baking with in France. It takes a bit longer to reach its peak and is generally slower and sweeter, and much more forgiving of being neglected for a week, so is the one I recommend for beginners.

I have verbal confirmation that the starter originated over 115 years ago and has been maintained ever since…it’s a lovely story. Although the microbes double every 20 – 30 minutes when they are refreshed…so it is either over a century old or 30 minutes old depending on how you want look at it.

The kit contains:

50g of white starter – FREE
A 600ml ceramic storage jar with lid
Sourdough School White Starter label
Bag of French T45 white flour by Foricher
5 Sourdough printed cards – Basic Recipe, Loaf record, Loaf schedule, White Starter, Tasting/Flavour wheel

Optional – you can add to this a signed copy of ‘The Sourdough School’ book should you wish to.

We are always asked if it is possible to buy our sourdough starter, but because it is basically organic flour, water and wild yeast naturally occuring in the flour we decided it was important to give it away for free.

Microbial Composition

In January 2017 our beautiful Sourdough School’s French white sourdough starter, derived from the original French starter from the bakery I grew up baking in, was analysed by the Puratos Sourdough Library in Belgium. This analysis revealed that it contained one dominant yeast and several kinds of LAB, which is typical of the make –up

Yeast = Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

Lactobacillus kimchii

Lactobacillus sanfrenciscensis

Lactobacillus acidifarinae

REFRESH STRAIGHT AWAY

The starter will need refreshing the moment you get it, as it will have been travelling from The Sourdough School to you. Please use the flour that comes as part of your kit.

Please go to How to Refresh Your Starter for detailed instructions and video and/or print off our PDF Refreshing A Sourdough Starter.

You can follow our Basic Sourdough Recipe online

You can learn how to make sourdough with Vanessa Kimbell at The Sourdough School, or you can learn to make sourdough online at The Sourdough Club.

* Please note that our sourdough starters are ONLY posted out twice a month. We build the starter here at the school to ensure each starter is in peak condition and at its most active. The rest of your kit will be sent at the same time as the starter.

* IT IS ESSENTIAL that when you receive your starter it is refreshed immediately in accordance with the instructions

* For best results, continue to refresh your starter using the recommended flour. Using a different flour can alter the microbial composition of the starter and may affect its level of activity.

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