Questions on Parisian (French) Sourdough Starter

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• From Eryn at 5/13/13 12:08 PM
  • By white flour, you mean all purpose flour from the store, right? Not flour made from freshly ground (I have a mill) white whole wheat berries?
  • The white flour sourdough starters do require white flour that has the bran and germ removed, for feeding the starter. Flour made from white whole wheat berries may be used with our Desem (whole wheat) sourdough starter.
    
    Choose the specified flour for feeding the starter, and it's ok to use other flours as the ingredient in your recipe.
    
    Note that freshly ground flour is not recommended for feeding any of the sourdough starters. Please allow the flour to age on the counter for several weeks for best results.
    
    
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• From Sara at 3/19/13 9:39 AM
  • If I feed the starter with white flour, can I then use it to make whole wheat sourdough? Or better off to use the whole wheat starter instead?
  • As long as you feed the sourdough starter with the flour for which it was designed (ie white flour for the Parisian Starter) you may use other flours for the ingredient in the recipe when baking bread.
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• From alli at 7/10/12 12:14 PM
  • is this starter free of baker's yeast?
  • Sourdough cultures contain water, flour and wild yeast.
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