Baking with sourdough is a wonderful way to explore the art and science of baking. Having a sourdough starter is not necessary to bake with Community Loaves - all of our bread formulas have an option for using yeast. For those that do wish to bake with a sourdough starter, the Honey Oat and Sunflower Rye both have options that use sourdough starters.
Watch the video below to learn all about keeping your sourdough starter happy!
Note: we no longer ship starter out to bakers, but scroll down on how to acquire one locally.
If you're interested in baking with sourdough, you'll need a bubbling jar of sourdough starter. To get a floury friend of your own, borrow some from a baking buddy or learn to make your own from scratch with just flour, water, and a mason jar (see instructions below).
Reach out to your hub members!
Put the "Community" in Community Loaves and use our Messaging Tool to source some starter from a fellow hub member. The starter needs to be fed frequently, resulting in "discard" starter, so it is an easy item to share!
Make your own!
Calling all wild yeast! Begin a starter from scratch with just a few ingredients you probably already have on hand - flour, water, mason jar, and all the wild yeast floating around your house just looking for a starter to call home. You can also learn how to maintain your starter so you can bake with it week after week.
Sourdough Starter Recipe - King Arthur
Feeding and Maintaining Your Sourdough Starter - King Arthur
If you have any questions, want to share tried and true suggestions for keeping your starter happy and healthy, or just want to share the fun name you've given your starter, please do so in the comment section below!