{"id":574,"date":"2012-05-27T23:35:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T22:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/?p=574"},"modified":"2017-08-29T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T21:02:08","slug":"adventures-in-sourdough-the-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/adventures-in-sourdough-the-starter\/","title":{"rendered":"In Sourdough &#8211; the starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been making bread on and off for years, but I&#8217;ve never made sourdough. So, here&#8217;s the first of the adventure in sourdough.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading up on it though, and have been brewing a starter for the last week. It&#8217;ll take a \u00a0couple of weeks to get the starter ready, then I have to look after it every day until you need it again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My starter is a 50\/50 hydrated starter, 1 cup of strong flour, 1 cup of water. I mixed it and left it for 3 days (giving it a stir every now and then).<\/p>\n<p>It seemed to be developing nicely. It bubbles gently, and smells of a mix of flour, bananas and pear drops. (from the reading I&#8217;ve done, this is apparently the right smell.)<\/p>\n<p>On day 3 I fed it. I took out a cup of \u00a0mix and binned it, then added just over 1\/2 cup of flour and 1\/2 cup of water. On day 5 I fed it again.<\/p>\n<p>I used a white bread flour for the starter, but have been feeding it a little Spelt too.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I make bread..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been making bread on and off for years, but I&#8217;ve never made sourdough. So, here&#8217;s the first of the adventure in sourdough. I&#8217;ve been &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}