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White Sourdough Starter Kit
- Food Hygiene Rating - 5
- The Sourdough School
£34.99 – £37.99
Rated 5.00 out of 5
This prized sourdough sourdough starter has origins tracing back over 115 years and is specially formulated at The Sourdough School.

The Kit Includes:

✔ 50g of white starter, included free
✔ A 600ml ceramic storage jar with lid
✔ 1 bag of specially selected flour
✔ Access to a video course from sourdough.co.uk
✔ Luxury information cards on sourdough

Please note: We are currently out of stock of ceramic jars until the end of this week. As a result, ceramic jar kits will be shipped on Wednesday, 12th March.

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Chocolate Sourdough Starter Kit
- Food Hygiene Rating - 5
- Organic
- The Sourdough School
£34.99
We’ve put together a kit containing just about everything you need to get started with a very special chocolate sourdough starter. It comes with a 50g pot of Sourdough School Chocolate starter. Your kit will be sent out at the same time as the starter, and any other products you might have ordered.

Pre-order now for dispatch on the date given below.

50g of chocolate starter.

A 600ml ceramic storage jar with lid.

Bag of high quality white flour.

5 Sourdough printed cards – Basic Recipe, Loaf record, Loaf schedule, Chocolate Starter, Tasting/Flavour wheel.

Includes an online Q&A session hosted by Vanessa Kimbell.

3 x 35g Organic cocoa & sugar mix
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About Sourdough

What is Sourdough?

Sourdough is bread made from flour, water and salt. The bread is fermented using wild yeast and lactic acid bacteria (LAB). The LAB acidifies the dough to give sourdough bread the noted sour tang. Found across the globe, the French refer to it as Levain, the Italians call it lievito naturale and the Germans call it sauerteig.

Sourdough bread starts with a sourdough starter. This bubbly pot plays host to a colony of symbiotic microbes. Bakers will often maintain their prized starter and feed it indefinitely. This provides a constant raising agent source.

Importantly, the sourdough starter is alive. It will continue to live and rise your bread with some careful management.

The microbes that make up a sourdough starter secrete enzymes, including amylase and maltose.

The history of sourdough starter began in ancient Egypt where it was used as an ingredient to make breads. One of the earliest records of sourdough starter comes from the 18th century when a German baker named Otto Rohwedder created the first loaf of sliced bread.