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Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for thousands of years. The components of creating a sourdough starter are very simple – flour and ...

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Microbes make a home among the starch grains of your sourdough starter. Daniel Veghte, CC BY-SA Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for ...