Wanted to have a sourdough baking day BUT

[Bakemesomebread]

(Know I need a starter)

but just found out it needs to be left overnight before cooking.

My bff is coming to visit, we always do something, and this year we decided to have a sourdough baking day. I’ve got the starters on the go, I’m GF and she’s not, all good, they are coming along nicely.

then last night I read all the recipe (yeah I know, I should have done this before now, but v.busy)

Any thoughts? Or should we abandon it and bake Paul Hollywood loaves?

You can encourage it to rise faster by making it warmer (up to about 25C). It will still taste good but you lose a little bit of the sourness. Assuming you're talking about bread, that is, not waffles or whatever.

Starters take days/sometimes weeks to be ready if you've made them yourself.

Sourdough involves long slow rising periods, I'm not sure how much fun it would be as a social activity. It often takes a few tries to get it right too. Maybe a general bread making day? You could do a few different types in the time it takes for sourdough to rise.

Thank you. I’ve the starter made and is ready to go. I’ll probably have a go the day before and bake some for our lunch and then do a different loaf for us to make and bake on the day.

I was sure I’d seen sourdough courses but now assume that perhaps they are a two day thing.

Have you made sourdough before?

If not, I'd practise now. The first few loaves made with a new starter are usually a bit dense and flat. Once you've used it a few times the starter tends to have more life and makes better loaves.

Sourdough is a completely different beast from commercial yeast. The dough is a lot stickier and more difficult to handle. (I use a mixer, which isn't the usual way, but I can't be bothered faffing about with stretch & folds every hour or two.)

If you're on Facebook, Sourdough Geeks is a really great page that gives loads of technical advice and helps you work out where you're going wrong based on how the loaves look. I've learned a lot from there.

Thanks, Ibe not made it before but I have an odd autoimmune disease and eating sourdough is something I can have (and always cough at the price of it in the supermarket) so thought it would be a good thing to do.

thanks for the tips.

I hope you enjoy making it. Homemade sourdough is delicious, and so worth it.

Are you coeliac or just gluten intolerant? If you're coeliac sourdough isn't safe, sorry (unless of course you're using gf flour, in which case ignore me!)

I know it's not what you asked but when you said autoimmune I assumed coeliac so would rather say something than not.

Thanks, yes I’ve GF flour, and am not coeliac, a most bizarre and rarely heard of autoimmune disease which is very outing if I were to say what it is.