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Let’s revive Cordelia

Revive your starter (opt. in the morning) by following these directions:

1. Open your sealed package of Cordelia Sourdough Starter and pour it into a medium-size glass or ceramic bowl. (The contents are 50 grams dried starter).

2. Add 160 grams of filtered water to the bowl of the dehydrated starter.

3. Gently stir and enjoy the aroma of baked bread as the starter dissolves into the water.

4. Add 75 grams Authentic Foods Brown Rice Flour and stir thoroughly, whipping air into the starter batter.

5. Scrape down the sides and cover with a tea towel or plate.

By dinner time your Cordelia starter will be puffed up and even have some bubbles. If you’ve used a clear glass bowl you can see small aeration. The consistency will be light and airy just like mousse.

1. 8-12 hours from the first set of steps, scoop out a half cup of now active starter and add it to a mixing bowl.

2. Transfer the rest of the starter to a straight-walled glass jar about 32 oz in size. A quart mason jar will do for first. My favorite jars are large glass Adam’s Peanut butter jars. There now will be approximately 130 grams of starter in the jar.

3. Cover with a lid.

4. Now mix up a batch of sourdough pancakes for tomorrow morning!

Now that you have enjoyed your first taste of Cordelia, it is time to make a loaf of bread!

1. Feed your starter 100 grams of warm filtered water and 80 grams of Brown Rice Flour. Watch a video where I do a simple feeding but be sure to follow step 3 after feeding!

2. Cover loosely and leave until the top is domed, the side is aerated and it smells strongly of bread. 3-8 hours.

The trickiest part of sourdough is catching the starter at just the right time. It is essential to use the starter before it deflates and falls. Try to use gluten-free sourdough once active, domed, and a bit bubbly, but well before it peaks. Either way, still make the bread!

Once your Cordelia Starter is ready, mix up some bread!

Ingredients for bread:

• Two mixing bowls

• Digital scale weighing in grams

• Spatula

• 7” round boule Proofing banneton or 7” bowl lined with a smooth tea-type towel

• Enamel or cast iron dutch oven/combo cooker safe to 500°

• Filter for purifying water if necessary

About the Simple Bread Recipe

• Light Buckwheat flour can replace oat flour.

• Not as tough, dense, and springy.

• Keeps well in parchment to enjoy for days after baking.