There may not be a lot of Amish folks in Southern California, but plenty of people have recipes for Amish friendship bread starter. We are printing the one from Sue in Long Beach. Thanks, Sue, and ...

Not only will you have a mature starter to make artisanal bread, but you can use the discard to make discard bread, biscuits, muffins, and pancakes! you don't HAVE to throw the discard away!

With a few simple ingredients and a few days of patience, you can make a homemade sourdough starter from scratch, and you won’t believe how easy it is. Once your starter is prepped, you can easily ...

To make your own sourdough starter, you need only repeat what ancient bakers discovered entirely by accident. The precise measurements are not essential. You are reproducing a technique that is 6,000 ...

If you’ve spent much of the quarantine channeling your inner Gold Rush pioneer, baking sourdough bread and feeding your named starter, well, welcome to the secret floured handshake society. Sourdough ...

Thanksgiving is always such a special time for family and friends. As we gather together to be with our family it causes us to pause and think of those we are missing and find comfort in knowing that ...

Thanks to a growing interest in all things fermented, sourdough is more popular than ever—and for good reason. The perfect piece of sourdough is chewy and distinctively tangy, more complex in flavor ...

Eric Pallant, a serious amateur baker and author of “Sourdough Culture: A History of Bread Making From Ancient to Modern Bakers,” usually keeps about 1 cup of sourdough starter, stored in a mason jar, ...

This story was originally published in April 2020. When I made sourdough starter for the first time, I did not discard the starter after every feeding, as is recommended by many professional bakers. I ...