The Sourdough Club

Learn the Art and Science of Baking, Eating, and Sharing Bread as Lifestyle Medicine

The Sourdough Club is dedicated to promoting health through baking. It's a beautiful community learning space, connecting creative bakers with curious and kind-hearted people who care deeply about the environment and love to bake, eat, and share bread as lifestyle medicine.
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Alternative starters

In an emergency, can I use anything other than flour to refresh my sourdough starter?

Learning Objective

You will discover a range of ways in which to refresh your starter if flour is at a shortage. You will be able to make a decision about which method is best for you given what you have available at home.

Learning Outcome

You can now go about refreshing your starter in a way that suits you if you don't currently have access to flour. You will now be able to assess the pros and cons of using different ingredients for refreshment of your starter.

 

There are times when, for one reason or another, you might not have enough flour in the house to refresh a starter. It may be that you are building your starter up but can't make it to shops that day, or it could be that your local shop has sold out.

Here, Vanessa explores the ways in which you can refresh and build your sourdough starter without using wheat flour (Triticum aestivum).

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Learn to make Sourdough – we can even send you a starter to get you going.  Start your journey today and find out more about how sourdough is the healthiest bread, and how apply our 7 core principles to your baking to help your digestion and benefit your overall health and wellbeing. 

There is a world of information and core knowledge inside the club, and you will be supported by a whole community of bakers as you learn.

The club is alive with baking and conversations: discover the latest research, tips, enjoy regular inspiring recipes and brilliant webinars, explore our interactive forum, join our new book club, and get access to member discounts.  You will also get updates with news to be in the know before anyone else about the latest books by Vanessa Kimbell and the courses on offer at the Sourdough School.

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All reasonable care is taken when writing about health aspects of bread, but the information it contains is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.

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