Cultures To Love San Francisco Sourdough Starter

Make the classic, authentic, slow fermented sourdough at home just like an artisanal baker from the local by-lanes of quaint European towns.

- Contains 1 packet of dehydrated Sourdough Starter Culture
- Sourdough made accessible with greater sense of control on ingredients
- One time purchase - If taken good care of and stored properly, the sourdough starter could last you indefinitely.
- Get our Sourdough starter culture and make the classic San Francisco Sourdough bread at home
- Versatile - Made with 100% organic refined flour (maida), it is ideal to make a delicious bread loaves, ciabatta's, sourdough pizza bread, cinnamon buns, cookies and dessert breads like banana walnut, dates and almond. The variety is simply endless!
- Super Easy: One pack is all you need to make your starter. Comes with easy to use instruction sheet. We have an immensely dedicated customer service team that will handhold you through the process in case you get stuck anywhere.
- India's first Cultures Company: Cultures To Love is India's first company to introduce a wide range of cultures that enables you to make fermented foods around the world, at home. Fermentos assemble and check out the rest of our products!

Control the ingredient quality, use indefinitely, dodge undesirable preservatives and flavouring agents by making your own Sourdough at home.

Steps to make San Francisco Bread using our starter culture:

Step 1 - Activate the starter
Add 1 tbsp flour + 1 tbsp water in a sterilized glass jar, stir
Add 1 packet of San Francisco Sourdough starter culture
Mix well. Cover the jar with a breathable cloth
Leave to ferment for 8-12 hrs

Step 2 - Feed the starter - Part 1
Add 2 tbsp flour + 2 tbsp water and stir
Cover the jar and leave to ferment for 8-12 hrs

Step 3 - Feed the starter - Part 2
Add 2.5 tbsp flour + 2.5 tbsp water and stir
Cover the jar and leave to ferment for 8-12 hrs

Step 4 - Feed the starter - Part 3
Add 10 tbsp flour + 10 tbsp water.
Leave to ferment for 8-12 hrs

Step 5 - Discard starter partially
Discard ½ of the starter to make dough-handling manageable

Step 6 - Feeding in 1:1:1 ratio
Feed the starter again in 1:1:1 ratio of - left out starter after draining excess, flour and water respectively. Allow to ferment for another 8 hrs.

Step 7 - Repeat feeding
Repeat steps 6 and 7 till the sourdough clears the Float Test.

Step 8 - Final Float test
Take a pea-sized starter and drop it into a bowl of water.
If the dough floats, it’s ready to bake
If not, feed the starter and ferment it further till the starter clears the test.

Recipe for San Francisco Sourdough bread and the detailed fermentation process is in the instruction sheets that comes with the purchase.

12 months from date of manufacturing

Not Returnable