What is sourdough discard? How long does it keep? What can I do with it? How can I tell if it’s bad? These sourdough discard FAQs reveal all.
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Sourdough-Potato Focaccia Made With Simple Ingredients and Tools

Do you love sourdough bread? Do you love potatoes? This sourdough-potato focaccia is for you. It requires humble ingredients and simple tools.
How to Make a Gluten-Free Sourdough Starter

I ground up teff grains in my grain mills to make a gluten-free sourdough starter but store-bought flour also works as do various grains.
How to Deal with Your Sourdough Starter When You Travel

If you plan to travel after a year plus of lockdowns, during which time you adopted a pet sourdough starter, will you have to find it a sitter?
Sourdough Bread Zoom Classes (and a Recorded Starter Class)

By popular demand! Live online sourdough bread classes. Learn to make this 3-ingredient bread from the comfort of your kitchen.
Sourdough Discard Vegan Pumpkin (or Squash) Ginger Cake

If you started baking sourdough bread, bake this sourdough pumpkin ginger cake to use up discard left over from feeding your pet starter.
Free Sourdough Starter Zoom Class!

Mark your calendars! Free sourdough starter Zoom class on December 3rd. Bring a jar, flour and water and we’ll make our starters together.
Sourdough Starter Metric and US Equivalents


Need to measure your sourdough starter but don’t have a scale? Have a recipe you’ll like to convert to US cups? Use these conversions.
Sourdough Discard Pizza: How to Sourdough-ize a Recipe


Many recipes are suitable for adding sourdough discard to—quick or yeast breads, muffins, tortillas, focaccia—and this pizza dough.
Call the Midwife of Microbes


Is your sourdough starter sluggish? Your ginger beer jinxed? Your kombucha capricious? Apply to get a diagnosis via Instagram Live.
Sourdough Discard Vegan Carrot Cake


If you’ve adopted a pet sourdough, you’ll need to find recipes for the discard you accumulate from feedings. This carrot cake makes your discard disappear.
Sourdough Discard Vegan Chocolate Cake


Whether you’re new to sourdough or you’ve baked it for years, you can likely use another recipe for your discard, especially one for an easy chocolate cake.
Is My Sourdough Starter Dead? Your Starter Dilemmas Addressed



Need help coaxing your sourdough starter to life? What can you do with all the discard? And what is a levain? Learn the answers to these questions and more.
Bake Sourdough Bread Without the Expensive Tools


Don’t let a want of fancy tools squelch your dreams of baking delicious sourdough bread. You may have most of the gear you need.
Hunkered Down During COVID-19? Make Something.


Millions of us will stay hunkered down at home during COVID-19, either out of necessity or precaution. Now seems like a great time to learn a new skill.