Cheats Sourdough Starter

 Good Afternoon Readers,

As we are now in the midst of covid-19 and subsequent lockdowns I have decided to ressurect this blog.

It will in no way be a pretty glamorous blog full of pretty stylised pictures but more a practical blog with a few photos as we go.

This is how to make a cheats sourdough starter.

To start make what we call a biga (method to follow)

When the biga is ready make a loaf of bread using it.

Leave a little of the biga behind and add some flour and water to it (330 gms/260gms)

and leave for 24 hours.

From here you can feed it again or make another loaf of bread

As you keep doing this the starter will gain strength and approach the quality of a good sourdough starter.

For your first few loaves of bread use your favourite yeasted bread recipe ,with the biga added to it, my suggestion would be to a bread recipe using 500gms of flour add 400 gms of the biga and simply follow your recipe.

BIGA RECIPE

0.75 gms of yeast (1/4 tsp)

60 gms warm water

330 gms flour

200 gms water

Sponge the yeast with the 60gms of warm water and 1/4 cup flour

Add to the remaining flour and water and mix well

Cover bowl and leave overnight (the longer you leave it the better the flavour)

Stay tuned and happy baking.

BG