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Sourdough starter sitting on a Kentucky Kitchen sill at day 14, it is named Chuck Sour

Beginner Sourdough Starter Recipe Kentucky

This sourdough starter recipe shows you how to use measuring spoons if you don't have a scale with the float test telling us when it's ready to use.
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Prep Time 14 days
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 Cup White Flour
  • 2 Cup Rye Flour Rounding up
  • 1 1/2 Cup Filtered Water Non chlorinated

Equipment

  • 1 Glass Jar
  • 1 Scale Measuring spoons if you don't have a scale
  • 1 Rubber band or Dry Erase Marker If your jar does not have measuring lines
  • 1 Rubber Spatula

Method
 

  1. Day 1: Mix and wait Stir 20 g flour (10 g white: 1 tbsp + 1 tsp + 10 g rye: 1 tbsp + 2 tsp) and 20 g water: 1 tbsp + 1 tsp together in your jar Mark the level. Cover loosely and wait.
    2. Yes you can do this with white only if you do not have rye. 2 tbsp + 2 tsp for 20 grams of white.
  2. Day 2: First feeding Keep 20 g (1 tbs of your Day 1 mixture and discard the rest. Add 20 g flour and 20 g water.
  3. Days 3-11: Build Consistency Once a day around the same time, discard all but 1 tablespoon (20 grams for the 50/50 white rye mix) of the starter from the jar and feed it with 20 g flour (10 g white + 10 g rye) and 20 g water
  4. Day 12: Float Test You should have a bubbly active starter and ready to do a float test, if it fails, keep trying mine floated at day 14.