mad about baking

OK, you’ve hopefully made a nice active sourdough starter, next you need to make the actual sourdough or ’sour’ for short. The sour is the basis on which your actual sourdough bread dough are based. With the one sourdough you can make an endless variety of breads. So here goes:

Preparation

Ingredients

• 40g Sourdough Starter
• 120g Rye Flour
• 240g Warm Water

Method

1. Mix all ingredients together, either with a mixer or by hand. It is not necessary to mix the dough intensely, as there is no gluten development as with wheat flour.
2. Cover the bowl and leave in a warm place for about 18 hours (plus/minus a few hours should be fine)
3. Voila - this is you sourdough and you can use it for any sourdough breads you like.

Conny’s Tip

You can use any rye flour you like, light or dark (wholemeal). I use Dove’s Farm organic wholemeal which works really well.