By making this bread you will be saving up in ways more than one. For starters, baking your own bread will cut you the cost of transportation. Plus energy cost in commercial manufacturing and production will be lessened. And by choosing to bake sourdough instead of the normal dough, the ingredients you will be using are fewer than the usual and healthier since there are no additives and unnatural ingredients.

Also, the dough could be easily mixed by hand, no need to use electric mixers and any other power consuming appliances. And you are certain that your bread is fresh since you are the one who made it.

One of the best things about this bread is that you don't have to be a skilled baker when you're attempting to bake this kind of bread. Even if it is your first time, or you don't have any background in baking, you can certainly make it possible provided that you have the interest to learn and a wide room for improvement.

The only ingredients you will need are the basic ones: flour, water, salt and sugar. While the baking tools you will need are a mixing bowl, an oven, and a baking sheet. When you bake a bread using sourdough, it only takes a short time, about twenty minutes or so, depending on the size of the dough.

Since the ingredients are only simple ones, you will save up money, and the process is not complicated. And you would be able to bake bread that beats a grocery loaf bread containing ten or more ingredients.

Because it is made up of simple ingredients, your dough could last up to weeks provided that it is stored properly in your refrigerator. That way, you are able to bake some bread whenever you want to.

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Sourdough can raise bread naturally meaning it is made without adding yeast. Wild yeast can grow by making a starter which can raise bread naturally. Contrary to its name, Sourdough bread isn't always sour tasting.

Although most of the time it does produce a tangy or sour taste mainly because of the components of a sourdough starter but the tangy taste can be altered when it reaches the main baking procedure.

The first step to be a sourdough baker, you must first create a starter. A starter is a batter that you will keep in your fridge for some time. The starter that you will make will be mixed into a dough and it will cause the bread to rise.

Most people think that their sourdough starter is alive. Actually, that can be the considered since a starter is a batter filled with yeast and bacteria. It contains a lactobacillus culture in symbiotic combination with the yeast. It is actually a form of leavening for bread. Because it is a cultured yeast, it is a natural leavening process.

It is not uncommon for a baker's starter dough to have years of history, from many hundreds of previous batches. As a result, each bakery's sourdough has a distinct taste. The combination of starter processes, refreshment ratios and rest times, culture and air temperature, humidity, and elevation also makes each batch of sourdough different.

Now to make the sourdough bread, you need to blend the starter with flour to make the dough. You can make different kinds of bread, pancakes and pastries using sourdough.

The great thing about sourdough is that you can store it in the refrigerator for as long as you want (it grows as well), and make a dough whenever you want to. It's not time consuming and easy to prepare.

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