When I first began making a sourdough starter from scratch, one thing that bothered me was the concept of "discarding" half of the flour and water mixture at least once, sometimes twice a day. Luckily ...

This sourdough starter can be transformed into loaves of bread, and the discards from the process of keeping it fed can be used in numerous other ways to give your baked goods a distinctive tangy ...

Recipes that appear in Idea Alley have not been tested by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. As promised, here are three recipes for making your own sourdough starter. First up is this "easy" starter from ...

These instructions will get you through all the steps necessary to cultivate an active sourdough starter and then build it into a levain, or sponge, you’ll need to bake our recipe for basic sourdough ...