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White Sourdough Starter Course (Free With Starter Kit Purchase)

£24.99 for 3 months

The perfect introduction to understanding and maintaining a white sourdough starter, perfectly complementing our white sourdough starter kit.

This course gives you three months access to the most comprehensive video tutorials on the internet.

Please note: when you complete your purchase of this course you will receive an order confirmation email entitled ‘ Your White Starter Information Email’. If this is not visible in your inbox please do look for it in your junk mail folder. This email contains full instructions to access the course content. we have detailed instructions here to help you log in.

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This is our White Sourdough Starter Course – a 3 month mini course to teach you everything you need to know about keeping, maintaining and using a white sourdough starter.

Sourdough starters are really the key to everything we do here at the Sourdough Club. Once a starter is created and refreshed, a portion is used to create a leaven which not only gives your bread a beautiful rise but also ferments the flour to make your bread much healthier. Slow fermented dough unlocks nutrients within the flour making it much easier to digest. This also helps to nourish your own microbiome, and a happy microbiome can lead to better health and well being. The sourdough starter is absolutely crucial to the process, and our comprehensive videos demystify this process into easy to follow instructions. We look at types of starters, how to refresh your starter, starter maintenance as well as recognising and correcting mistakes.

This mini course covers sourdough starters, it does not include access to our library of Sourdough Club recipes. If you are currently not able to join the Club in full, via our Community Membership, please do use these free sourdough recipes on The Sourdough School website.

This course will give you access for 3 months to the course content from date of purchase and will no longer be available when it runs out.  There is no reactivation, therefore if you wish to continue you will needed to repurchase, or you can join the Club with our Community Membership for 12 months and more, or choose another course.

With this course you will learn:

    • The theory of sourdough starter
    • Everything you need to know about a white sourdough starter
    • How to make a sourdough starter
    • Learn to convert, build & maintain your starter
    • What to do if things go wrong
    • What to do next

NOTE If you are having trouble accessing the course we have detailed instructions here to help you log in.
Please make sure you have your voucher from your email from Deliver Deli.

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WHITE SOURDOUGH STARTER KIT & COURSE This is our WHITE SOURDOUGH STARTER KIT & COURSE 

This is our fresh White Starter, with sweet yogurt-like flavours – our original sourdough starter.

"My French white starter is one that I have been using since I was 11 year old and originates in the bakery I grew up baking with in France. It takes a bit longer to reach its peak and is generally slower and sweeter, and much more forgiving of being neglected for a week, so is the one I recommend for beginners.

I have verbal confirmation that the starter originated over 115 years ago and has been maintained ever since…it’s a lovely story. Although the microbes double every 20 – 30 minutes when they are refreshed…so it is either over a century old or 30 minutes old depending on how you want look at it." - @vanessakimbell, founder of The Sourdough School and Club

Learn more about our white sourdough start and course by follow the link in the bio to our shop 👆

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BAKING AS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE The BALM (baking as BAKING AS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE

The BALM (baking as Lifestyle Medicine) Protocol underpins everything we do at the Sourdough School and Club.

It is a holistic approach to baking as preventative health. It is an approach that uses evidence-based behavioural interventions to prevent, treat and manage chronic disease. 

On our courses, students study our 7 core principles that underpin BALM and how about baking and eating healthy bread can support your gut Microbiome. How they can incorporate these principles into their sourdough baking to nourish their gut microbiome.

Learn more about baking as lifestyle medicine over on the @sourdoughschool or by following the link in the bio 👆

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🌾 WHAT ARE BOTANICAL BLENDS? 🌸 The idea of 🌾 WHAT ARE BOTANICAL BLENDS? 🌸

The idea of Botanical Blend Flours was created by @vanessakimbell  of the @sourdoughschool as part of her innovative approach to baking sourdough bread to nourish the gut. 

Botanical Blends are milled from a diversity of grains, pulses and botanical ingredients like flowers, herbs and spices. The diversity of the flour promotes gut health and supports agroecological farming methods. 

Learn about making and milling your own botanical blends in Vanessa's book Sweet Sourdough or buy botanical blend flour from our shop 👆

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FLOUR IS NOT JUST FLOUR… When I’m choosing fl FLOUR IS NOT JUST FLOUR…

When I’m choosing flour, I look at the type of milling method used, because this makes a huge difference to your bread. 

When wheat is turned into flour, the grain is crushed, milled and then sifted to remove the germs and the fibrous outer layer, which is how we get lighter, whiter flour. 

Traditionally, flour would be stoneground, but the modern milling process uses steel rollers. These rollers are very efficient at separating out the component parts of the grain, but they also get hot, which can partly kill off the wild yeasts and lactic acid bacteria that might be present in the flour.

Lear more about flour, baking and sourdough by joining The Sourdough Club today 👆

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IS IT A YOGA MOVE? WHY DO I NEED TO STRETCH & FOLD IS IT A YOGA MOVE? WHY DO I NEED TO STRETCH & FOLD?

In sourdough, gluten doesn’t need developing by kneading. Trust me, you will get a better rise and lighter loaf by using the long, slow fermentation to align the gluten molecules instead of kneading. 

Simply leaving the dough to ferment with just a few stretches and folds to help will result in a gluten structure that gives the bread the complex network of sticky strands that capture the CO2 as the yeasts get to work consuming the sugars in the flour.

Follow the link in the bio to join The Sourdough Club today and learn more about making incredible sourdough bread 👆

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