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Know Your Ingredients and Terms

Have you ever run into an ingredient in a recipe and wondered, "What's that?" Then this page is for you.

As we add recipes to Sourdoughhome, we'll add more ingredients to this page.

Active Sourdough Starter

Altus

Autolyse

Baker's Percentage

Baking Soda and Baking Powder

Biga

Biga Baturale

Buttermilk

Cake Flour

Chef

Elasticity

Extensibility

Extraction

Feeding a Starter

 

Flour

Honey

Hydration

Levain

Malted Barley Extract

Milk

Mother

Oil

Old Dough

Poolish

Preferment

Refreshed Starter

Salt

Semolina Flour

 

 

Shower Caps or Processing Caps

Sour

Sourdough

Spent Grain

Sponge

Starter

Sugar

Straight Yeast Dough

The Rule of 240

Type 00 Flour

Vital Wheat Gluten

Water

Whole Wheat Flour

Yeast

 

 

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