{"id":8574,"date":"2020-04-14T20:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T01:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2020-04-14T20:25:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T01:25:52","slug":"reviving-my-dormant-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/?p=8574","title":{"rendered":"Reviving my dormant starter .."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last year in the spring , I thought , why not trying to dry the starter , just to see .. and incase anything happen to my starter , yeah it’s like insurance type a thing . Just incase . At the time I had no clue how to revive it .. all I cared was just having insurance incase anything happens to the starter . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So last spring after feeding Ben&Jerry , I spread some on thin layer on a parchment paper to dry . I think it took a day or something to totally dry , it depends how thin it is . But that’s all I did , at their peak time , I dried them . I then broke them apart n store them in the jar . My son saw it and he thought it was crackers …🤣🤣🤣<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward we’re on 2020 isolation . And people are baking up a storm , especially sourdough . My husband mentioned hey it’s a great time to see how to revive those starter chips ..🤣<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure I said , it was Easter Sunday . Got nothing else to do since we didn’t do our normal Easter cooking . We cooked but not much . So here’s the starter I dried last year .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Been staying in the kitchen cabinet for a year . Untouched , in the dark . Dormant ..power off <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

First step I just took out few chips out , crumbled it up . I suppose you can grind them into powder like but I didn’t . I just placed it in a glass and added tablespoon or two warm water . Let it sit and the chips should soften up and you can mash it up . Added little bit of flour . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used spoon to mash it up after sitting in water for 15 minutes or so . Then added flour . Just another tablespoon <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Later on that evening I started feeding it , equal water and flour . 10 grams water and 10 grams flour . Did it the next morning too . Hardly any bubble the first day , the next day I saw some . To be honest I hardly measured the feeding . I just eyeballed it . But try equal ratio at least .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About 18 hours after being revived . I started seeing very few bubbles . Good sign ! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I fed basically twice a day with little flour and water . By Tuesday morning I saw more bubbles showing up overnight . And sweet smell .. very good sign ! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday morning , so I fed it again . By noon I used some of these for making naan bread . I fed it again . <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the last feeding , it only took 4 hours before they doubled in size ! So basically they’re pretty much 100% power up ! Yay ☺️☺️<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Within 4 hours after feeding . Doubled up . Great sign . It is indeed alive !
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So that’s pretty much it . I’ll be using this for baking tomorrow . I’ll update how it turns out ! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year in the spring , I thought , why not trying to dry the starter , just to see .. and incase anything happen to my starter , yeah it’s like insurance type a thing . Just incase . At the time I had no clue how to revive it .. all I cared was just having insurance incase anything happens to the starter . So last spring after feeding Ben&Jerry , I spread some on thin layer on a parchment paper to dry . I think it took a day or something to totally dry , it depends how thin it is . But that’s all I did , at their peak time , I dried them . I then broke them apart n store them in the jar . My son saw it and he thought it was crackers …🤣🤣🤣 Fast forward we’re on 2020 isolation . And people are baking up a storm , especially sourdough . My husband mentioned hey it’s a great time to see how to revive those starter chips ..🤣 Sure I said , it was Easter Sunday . Got nothing else to do since we didn’t do our normal Easter cooking . We cooked but not much . So here’s the starter I dried last year . First step I just took out few chips out , crumbled it up . I suppose you can grind them into powder like but I didn’t . I just placed it in a glass and added tablespoon or two warm water . Let it sit and the chips should soften up and you can mash it up . Added little bit of flour . Later on that evening I started feeding it , equal water and flour . 10 grams water and 10 grams flour . Did it the next morning too . Hardly any bubble the first day , the next day I saw some . To be honest I hardly measured the feeding . I just eyeballed it . But try equal ratio at least . I fed basically twice a day with little flour and water . By Tuesday morning I saw more bubbles showing up overnight . And sweet smell .. very good sign ! After the last feeding , it only took 4 hours before they doubled in size ! So basically they’re pretty much 100% power up ! Yay ☺️☺️ So that’s pretty much it . I’ll be using this for baking tomorrow . I’ll update how it turns out !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8577,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions\/8577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}