Wild yeast starter

You don't need commercial yeast to make a delicious loaf of bread! Bake homemade bread with wild yeast from scratch with honey water or fruit water.

Capturing wild yeast is easy once you know the right technique to use. Morning Chores shows you two ways to capture wild yeast.

The best breads are made with a natural yeast starter. It is an easy way to have yeast on hand. It also breaks down the grain to make bread more digestible.

Bubbly, fizzy, and just a bit murky, making a wild yeast starter can seem a little daunting, but it's one of the easiest kitchen projects you can undertake. There's only a single step: sealing fruit into a jar filled with water. And then you wait. In less than a week, you have a yeasty starter you can use to bake bread.Fruits, vegetables, and even wild herbs are all sources for wild yeast, but dried fruit is one of the easiest for newcomers to use. Figs, apricots, and raisins work well.

Yeast water is a great compliment to your sourdough starter. It delivers bread with the same qualities, except the sourness.

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The easiest way to make your own yeast is to grow a sourdough starter. All you have to do is capture wild yeast using flour and water.

This post and the next will be all about how to grow wild yeast for bread baking. There will be two steps covered: 1) making wild yeast water and 2) making a yeast starter with the yeast water. Thi…