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Cooking With Courtney

Cooking With Courtney

Friday, May 2, 2025

Sourdough Starter

 



1 cup water
1 cup bread flour
1 tsp yeast

To Feed: 
1/2 cup bread flour
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sourdough mixture
(Discard the rest, store in fridge and use for discard recipes found here

Allow to double when using to make sourdough bread
**Mine usually doesn’t double unless I put it on a heating mat at about 77 degrees. 

Either store on counter to feed every day or two or in the fridge to feed every week 
Depending on how much you are using.  

See my Traditional Sourdough Recipe here



Thursday, May 1, 2025

Quick Sourdough Bread Recipe

 



Ingredients 
1/4 cup active sourdough starter
 **See Starter recipe and instructions here **
1 and 1/2 cup water
4 cups flour
2 tsp salt
1 tsp yeast

Directions
1. Place all ingredients in bread machine on dough setting.
2. Turn out dough and form into bread loaf
3. Place on greased parchment paper inside a bowl and cover with a towel
4. Allow dough to rise to double in size
5. Preheat a dutch oven with lid in your oven to 425 degree
6. Cut slits into the bread for baking with a razor
7. Place dough and parchment paper inside the dutch oven and top with lid
8. Bake at 425 for 20 mind
9. Lower oven temp to 400 degrees and remove the dutch oven lid
10. Bake for 30-35 more mins. 
Bread should sound hollow when tapped on the bottom