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Although I love baking and I try to bake something almost every weekend, I haven't been baking sandwich bread for several months. I've been buying it instead to save time and effort. But when B was fired I decided that I should go back to baking our bread, because we have a ton of flour and it's a way to conserve money. Last week I made a GF brioche loaf, and this week I made GF buttermilk biscuits.
I was feeling confident so I decided to finally awaken the GF sourdough culture that Cultures For Health sent me a few years ago; it was a free gift with the tibicos I bought from them back then. It had long expired but I figured I would give it a shot. I mixed it up on Monday evening, it didn't start bubbling until Tuesday evening after its third feed. Then on Thursday it started to smell like sourdough.
This started is based on brown rice flour and it "eats" a lot faster than a typical wheat-based sourdough. I am getting used to that and at the last feed I tried overfeeding it to see if that would buy me some time between feeds. So instead of discarding back to 1/4 C and then feeding it 1/4C each of flour and water, I discarded back to 2T and fed it 1/4C each of flour and water. That did give me a longer feed time. Once I get the starter established, I will no longer discard; I prefer a no-discard method. I will also keep it in the fridge because seriously, this thing needs feeding as often as my cats. I hope to someday convert it to a non-rice flour.
I was feeling confident so I decided to finally awaken the GF sourdough culture that Cultures For Health sent me a few years ago; it was a free gift with the tibicos I bought from them back then. It had long expired but I figured I would give it a shot. I mixed it up on Monday evening, it didn't start bubbling until Tuesday evening after its third feed. Then on Thursday it started to smell like sourdough.
This started is based on brown rice flour and it "eats" a lot faster than a typical wheat-based sourdough. I am getting used to that and at the last feed I tried overfeeding it to see if that would buy me some time between feeds. So instead of discarding back to 1/4 C and then feeding it 1/4C each of flour and water, I discarded back to 2T and fed it 1/4C each of flour and water. That did give me a longer feed time. Once I get the starter established, I will no longer discard; I prefer a no-discard method. I will also keep it in the fridge because seriously, this thing needs feeding as often as my cats. I hope to someday convert it to a non-rice flour.