Making sourdough starter - is there a fool proof recipe?

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please share yours
I would like to make one to bake a continental style bread

The Handmade Loaf by Dan Lepard is an excellent book. He has the basic instructions are on his website but the book's well worth getting too. I read somewhere else that adding a few raisins to the starter when you first make it really helps as the skins contain the right yeasts needed for sourdough.

Or why not see if somebody has a starter that they could send you a sample of?! Sadly dh threw mine away accidentally a few weeks ago or I would have done

I use the recipe in the Handmade Loaf, and it has never failed. That one does use raisins. The recipe on the website looks interesting. May try the freezing.

thanks for the tip and pointing me towards that book
I know I could get the starter ready made sold as a powder - but I guess we could freeze it (or perhaps even dry???)