This recipe is just the base chili to make many other recipes using chili.

The method for making a sourdough starter sponge is the same, regardless of which starter you use! The sponge puffs up and becomes filled with air bubbles, and it's just fun to watch it grow.The method is the same whichever starter liquid you use! I used raisin starter this time.Add the same amount of starter liquid and flour.You can use water instead of starter liquid from the 2nd day onwards, but if you use starter liquid you'll have a more fragrant, robust starter sponge. Recipe by Hirochan

Since this bread starter is made by adding flour to yogurt, it's easy to see how it's fermenting, unlike some other starters. You can store this starter in the refrigerator for about 5 days. If you leave a little leftover, use half the amount of water, bread flour and sugar in step 5, and incubate for 5-6 hours at room temperature you can grow more starter. If you do this twice, your starter will ferment better. If it takes on an "off" smell like a dishtowel, it's better to manfully throw it away.To get a bread starter going, in the spring, summer and fall you can just let it rest at room temperature. In midsummer when it's very hot, put it in a cool location in your room when you're at home, and put it in the refrigerator when you go out if your house will get very hot. You can also put it in an insulated polystyrene container with ice packs to keep it at under 25 °C. In the winter, put the starter jar on top of the refrigerator, near the stove, near your electric water kettle or in your boiler room. You could also make a fermentation box using a thermostat meant for tropical fish aquariums and an insulated box. But don't put the starter in a very warm location. Recipe by mipon

I challenged myself to create a recipe for pita bread using my homemade raisin bread starter.Be patient rolling out the dough, letting it rise evenly.If the dough doesn't rise properly, open it up with a knife. Recipe by yukina007

When I was making a raisin bread starter, I learned that I could make starter using all kinds of ingredients.Yogurt ferments quickly. In the summer this can be made in a day. It can be stored for about 2 months, but try to use it up quickly. Starter can be used in cooking as well as for bread, so try experimenting. Recipe by Raichi

I wanted to make ciabatta with the full flavor of wheat...You use very little yeast in this recipe, so it takes a long time, but just take things nice and slow.The dough will be very soft and hard to handle, so dust it well and use a rubber spatula.Usually you would let the dough rise at room temperature, but when it's warm, it will rise too much; in warmer temperatures, put it in the vegetable compartment in the fridge. Recipe by mihotti33

I heard bread prepared with homemade black tea starter is delicious, so I wanted to try making some.Use loose leaf tea.Mix up the contents of the container once a day, open the lid and let some air in.I slosh it around with the lid on to mix it. When it starts fermenting, you'll hear a popping sound. Recipe by Hirochan

When possible, we would have lobster with other fish dishes for Christmas Eve. Here is an elegant starter to get your Christmas meal off right. Perfect for any special meal. Enjoy!

Several years ago, I wanted to make pizza and was searching on the internet, when I learned about natural leaven. Ever since then I've been captivated by natural leaven (natural yeast or sourdough) bread.In the winter, I put the jar next to my electric kettle or rice cooker. In any case, when the mixture is very foamy and bubbly, and it smells alcoholic, it's done. Add the same amount of water as the amount of starter you used as well as some honey, sugar or 100% fruit juice, and the starter will keep going for years. If using 100 % fruit juice, don't add any sugar. If the starter smells rotten, throw it out.When the starter is down to about 10g, add 200 g of water, 100 g of raisins, and 30 g of sugar and let it re-ferment. Recipe by Raichi

I've been making this for a while.There's a lot of wild yeast on the peel and core of the apple, so don't throw them out. It takes a bit more time to make this in the winter. If you add the same amount of boiled then cooled water as the starter you took out, plus sugar or honey to the remaining starter, let it ferment again and store in the refrigerator, the starter will stay alive for years. You can add 100% apple juice instead of the boiled then cooled water to feed the starter too. In that case, don't add any sugar. If there is only 1/3rd of the starter left, add the abovementioned starter additions, let it ferment at room temperature for 2 days or so, strain and store in the refrigerator. Recipe by Raichi

We have a famous sour dough bread maker in San Francisco called Tartines Bakery. These are their recipes, I took their class twenty years ago. I still use their original sour dough starter every week, and I remember how much fun it was to make this the first time.I have learned a lot about bread flour since then, and gladly share what works for me in here. 2024 update: the world champion sour dough baguette maker is the Utopie Bakery in Paris. They share their recipe. They add fresh banana and lemon to their sour dough starter when repleneshing. I adjusted my recipe to reflect theirs.

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