{"id":182126,"date":"2025-02-15T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enrilemoine.com\/?p=182126"},"modified":"2025-04-03T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T05:32:08","slug":"how-to-make-homemade-sourdough-starter-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enrilemoine.com\/en\/2025\/02\/15\/how-to-make-homemade-sourdough-starter-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make Homemade Sourdough Starter from Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’re in the right place if you have always wanted to make sourdough but have not dared, felt intimidated, or failed. Today, I’ll show you how to prepare this wonder with only two ingredients and without complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll make your sourdough starter to bake the most delicious loaves<\/a>, baguettes, pizzas, focaccias, and even sandwich bread without stress and with guaranteed success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: As a member of the Amazon Associates Program and other affiliate programs, I receive compensation for products sold through affiliate links in this post at no cost to the buyer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is sourdough?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sourdough is a natural ferment made with flour and water without added yeast. A live culture of bacteria and natural or wild yeast develops in flour mixed with water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unlike bread made with commercial yeast, sourdough bread is fermented thanks to the microorganisms in the flour. It’s a long process, but it’s worth every minute. This ancient method of natural fermentation has been used long before industrial store-bought yeast existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why will you love making sourdough bread?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, bread made with sourdough has an incomparable flavor that is much more complex than bread made with commercial yeast<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By its long fermentation process, in which the gluten and starches in the flour are broken down, sourdough bread is much more easily digested and is therefore said to be a “healthy” bread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As if that were not enough, sourdough acts as a natural preservative, allowing the bread to stay fresher for longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, thanks to the recent sourdough bread boom, we have understood that the problem is not gluten but how the bread in the grocery store is made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sourdough: a pending assignment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to my friends from Panes Venezolanos,<\/a> I learned to make Venezuelan-style pan franc\u00e9s<\/em> last year. Then, I decided that in 2025, all the bread eaten in my house would be homemade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did not imagine meeting that goal in August 2024, but much better still, starting in October of that year, all the bread we eat in my house is not homemade but sourdough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had wanted to learn how to make sourdough since I purchased Tartine<\/em><\/a>, a book by the San Francisco bakery of the same name, in November 2010. However, I admit I never tried. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything changed when my beloved Irlib Taylor, the artisan baker behind The Artisian Loaf<\/em><\/a>, offered to teach me and gave me all her secrets for making homemade bread, including rustic loaves and sandwich bread, which I now make weekly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I share those and other tricks I learned in the course Natural Bakery with Sourdough<\/em> with Somosalvajes<\/em><\/a> <\/span>with you today so that you, too, can make your sourdough without complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What utensils do I need to make sourdough?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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To make sourdough, you will need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n