Delicious Uses For Your Extra Sourdough Starter

Reader Contribution by Renee Pottle
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Too much sourdough starter. Starter bubbling away in jars on the counter top. Starter patiently waiting its turn in the refrigerator. Even after turning cups of the stuff into beautiful loaves of homemade bread, there’s always more, casting an accusing eye and asking, “What are you going to do with me – and when am I getting fed?!”

If you are a sourdough bread baker, it’s sure to happen to you sooner or later – an excess of sourdough starter. We all want to keep our starter alive, and a well-loved starter is almost part of the family. It’s not quite on the same level as Fido or Kitty, but roughly on par with the goldfish or the African violet that once belonged to Mom. Keeping the starter alive means feeding it, and feeding it leads to too much starter. It seems so wasteful to throw some of it out. But what to do with it all? Luckily we don’t have to toss part of our starter just to keep the rest alive. There are many uses for excess starter that don’t involve baking another artisan loaf of bread. We can:

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