November 30, 2009 - 7:04am
Starter
Hello,
my question. If you have a working starters one that will double with each feeding. Now you want to use it.
If you have 1.2 cup of good working starter and you want to bake a loaf of bread that needs 1/2 cup of starter. Do you take the 1/2 cup from you startewr or do you take a tab;lespoon full and now add flour and water till it again double.
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and still rising (almost peaking) then by all means use some of it. Stir it down first and measure. If it has already peaked and is deflated, then it might be wise to remove some and feed it first, let it rise and then use it just before it peaks for the recipe.
Mini
Hi Melaine
Thanks for the tip. I used to always have a good starter going. For some reason I lost my old from a bad batch of clorinated water now I have started a new one and was not sure of the procedure.
I assume that the active starter is what you took from the mother starter and let sit over night,
Will try that and see how it works for me.
Thanks again
Bob