New Sourdough Starter To Try

[BGKYSmoker]

Seen this from a German lady, said it how her grams started back in Germany.

I gotta try it while I'm in GA.

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1 cup buttermilk (active cultured)
1 dash water, 1 Tbsp filtered or bottled.
2-3 Tbsp white flour or white rye flour. (she didnt say what kind or brand of white flour) I have white rye going to use.
1/2 tsp caraway seed.

Combine buttermilk, water, flour, and caraway seeds in a glass jar
(or in another non-reactive container.

Adjust the ingredients so that your starter has a thick pancake batter-like consistency. Stir vigorously.

Lightly cover and leave in warm, undisturbed spot. Check every day for progress. You can also stir it.
Depending on the environment (temperature, moisture, wild yeasts), this can take about 5-10 days.

Your sourdough starter is ripe when it has a pleasant sour smell and is bubbly and foamy. You can also drop a bit of water in and stir....not too much water

 

[02ebz06]

Interesting with the caraway seeds.
Guess you keep adding them with the feedings.

 

[BGKYSmoker]

Just once.

 

[02ebz06]

So, once it gets ripe, is it meant to use all of it, or do you start doing normal feedings then ?

 

[BGKYSmoker]

So, once it gets ripe, is it meant to use all of it, or do you start doing normal feedings then ?

Normal feeds if that your thing. Mine I dont feed 2x daily like most do.
Keep the caraway in, you won't notice if they get in your next bake.

 

[02ebz06]

I only do twice a day when starting out until I get some good bubbles and smell, which I did with this batch.
Now it is in the SD Home at 41f and will stay there until mid-December when we get back.
Will start feeding it again then and use it as soon as it is ready.

 

[kelbro]

Sounds similar to a Czech poolish/starter that my grandma used for SD rye bread. Cultured buttermilk has a lot of the same goodies in it that we develop in a regular starter.

 

[forktender]

Sounds interesting, where do you keep your starter this time of year?
Our water heater and furnace are in an inside closet, so I place mine on top of the W.H. to keep it nice and warm, it goes crazy in the warm closet.
My Noni, did the same with her starter, she rarely used yeast, everything was made with her starter. I wish I had a blob of her old starter to reactivate.
I read an article where they restarted a starter found in King TUT's tomb, pretty cool, it was the oldest starter ever restarted, and they fed it with ancient grain flour that they ground from grain found in another tomb, I love reading stuff like this.

 

[BGKYSmoker]

Just made some.

We are in GA right now so this will go back home with me.

Just sit the top on.

 

[BGKYSmoker]

Update on this starter.

It's day 5. Have not fed this at all. I have stirred it one time daily.

This morning we have activity.

Heading back home tonight, this will go into the SD home. Still no feeding.

 

[BGKYSmoker]

Got home at 1a. Put this in the sd home.

Ready to put in a clean jar.

Stir it down some.

Ready for first feeding since Monday.
75g

Smells pretty good like SD.

Now back in the sd home, will check in 4 hours.