Bread Making without Baker’s Yeast

Begin your own sourdough starter!

Patricia Davis
Simply Living and Living Simply
5 min readAug 3, 2020

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When I was in middle school, my mom started some sourdough bread. Sourdough bread uses wild yeast to produce a tangy bread that has more flavors than ordinary sandwich loaf you buy in the store, but it takes time to develop that yeast — anywhere from 10 days to three weeks.

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Patricia Davis
Simply Living and Living Simply

Pat blogs about food, sustainability, and living simply. Sourdough is a particular passion. She also writes historical fiction with social justice themes.