The Sourdough School

Specialising in Nutrition & Digestibility of Bread & the Gut Microbiome

Learn to make Sourdough & discover why sourdough is the healthiest bread. Find out how sourdough helps your digestion & benefits to your overall health & wellbeing. It is about making connections, & the mindfulness & joy of baking, as well as understanding the techniques that make your bread rise so you can bake & share nourishing bread every day, with the people you love.
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Sourdough starter

So what is a starter?

A culture of naturally occurring yeast and lactic acid bacteria, obtained by the fermentation of flour and water. By refreshing an existing starter with further flour and water we culture this community of wild yeast and lactic acid bacteria, and in managing optimal levels of microbes we can use it to inoculate flour and water to make bread.

At the Sourdough School we use the starter to make a leaven with. The leaven is used instead of commercial yeast. Making a leaven helps to build higher levels of microbes for a more open crumb sourdough.

 

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