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Sourdough starter is what gives it its characteristic flavor. The starter is allowed to collect natural yeasts from the air and "sours" as a result. The easiest way to make a starter is to mix flour with water, which has been boiled and cooled, in equal amounts, and set it out in a warm place for a few days, mixing it once or twice. After it begins to foam or increase in volume it can be refrigerated. If it changes in color (orange, dark yellow, or brown) at any time throw it out and start over.

When using the starter in a recipe always use half of it, leaving half to grow more, and replace what you use with more flour and water.

If you don't want to wait the two days needed to make the starter, you could (this is not recommended by purists) add bread yeast to it and let it set only 12 hours to a day, to get started. Eventually, this will begin to take on the qualities of any other sour dough starter.

**Note: sourdough bread takes longer to rise than normal yeast breads, but I think it's well worth the extra time and effort. Once you start making sourdough, you should divide and feed the starter at least every other day or it will starve itself and go bad. (the yeasts actually begin to autolyse, or feed off each other.)

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