Know Your Ingredients And Terms
Have you ever run into an ingredient in a recipe and wondered, "What's that?" Then this page is for you. As we add recipes to our home page, we'll add more ingredients to this page.
Many recipes at sourdoughhome call for Active Sourdough Starter - so, what's an active sourdough starter? An active starter is one that has fed within the past 12 hours, and that is active enough that it was able to double in size after that feeding. If you fed your starter and it didn't double, you should feed it a few more times. I also suggest you check out the pages on maintaining or caring for your starter. The best time to use the starter is somewhere between the time it reaches its peak and before it starts to fall. When that will be depends on your starter and the temperature at which it is being stored. If you keep your starter thinner (that is, you feed more water and less flour) than I suggest, it may not double at all. Thinner starters don't have enough gluten in them to rise. For many reasons, I don't suggest thinner starters.
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