Now that you are confident in your sourdough, and are doing so well at keeping it alive, you're going to end up with a lot of discard.
What's discard? When you are feeding regularly, you're going to have some starter that's not quite ready to make beautiful loaves of bread, or you don't have time to bake one day so you have extra that you need to remove from your jar. Store this in a separate jar in the fridge so that you are ready to bake something else whenever the mood strikes.
My Sourdough Discard Recipes
Dairy-Free Pancakes
I love my griddle! I can cook lots of pancakes all at once to feed my hungry crowd.
Applesauce Muffins
Use applesauce or pumpkin or whatever puree you have on hand. These can be made special with whatever mix-ins you have on hand.
Lemon Poppyseed Muffins
Everyone loves a classic lemon poppyseed muffin. The discard adds a really great tang to these.
Heavy Cream Drop Biscuits
Nothing beats the ease of drop biscuits. No rolling or cutting, just get 'er done.
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Kim gauthier
Bread recipe sour dough recipe
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If you search 'sourdough' here you'll find lots!
Carla
Hello what if you don’t have access to some starter do you have a recipe to start your own starter?
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If you are on instagram I have a tutorial saved to my highlights on starting one of your own. It only takes a few days and all you need it water, flour and two jars. (one for the discard)
Liz Coldwell
I also use discard for hamburger buns and cookies
Heather
Do you have a starter recipe?
Jen
I make sour dough crackers with the discard. They are sooo good. My kids will eat them over chips any day! We top them with cream cheese and smoked salmon, Yum!
Momma B
Oo I'm interested in your cracker recipe please! Would love to try it. ??
Sue Mc
We love making crackers out of the discard, baking them with different topping sprinkled on. The only trick for me is getting the dough rolled out really thin.
Connie Epley
I don’t have an Instagram account. Please share your starter recipe.
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I'm sorry Kate doesn't have a recipe to share exactly. There are a lot of recipes online but the basic premise of starting with good fresh flour and water is standard. The main thing to remember is its going to take at least four days and you want to keep it on the counter is a warmish spot, covered with a piece of cotton or a lid sitting on top but not screwed down.
Start with about 2 tablespoons flour and a bit less than that of water. Each day (approx 24 hours) you are going to stir in down and add flour equal to the amount of "starter" in your jar and a bit less than that of water. It should be a muffin batter consistency. You are aiming for seeing bubbles and your starter doubling. When you get more than 1/2 cup of "starter" you are best to discard extra so you are only "feeding up" a small amount. Once your "starter" doubles within 24 hours it is good to go.
I've been using the same starter that Kate gave me in about 2016 and even when I go away for a month I'm still able to revive it using this method.
Melisa Rechenmacher
OK Kate, I watched the Holler Homestead last night and Meg made your Lemon Sourdough Cake recipe. I need this in my life... especially since I have a ton of discard right now! LOL Please post the recipe soon! Hugs! Melisa from Squirrel Run
Daisy Duck
I have been watching ruth Ann Zimmer on baking sour Dough .but she go to your page. I hope I can do it. I have never made anything like this before. We see how it work out. Hi from Linden TN, Daisy Duck
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I'm sure you can do it!!