Potato Flake Sourdough Starter

If you have a lot of instant potato flakes, you can make Potato Flake Starter. It is like the sour dough starter, except it uses instant potato flakes. It does need yeast at the beginning, but after that, you feed it every once a week with potato flakes, sugar and water.  

Ingredients

1 pkg. or 1 Tbsp. yeast
1 cup warm water (110°-115°)
1/2 cup sugar
3 Tbsp. instant potato flakes

Directions

Mix yeast, warm water, sugar and instant potato flakes in a glass jar or container. Cover loosely and let stand on the kitchen counter for 2 days. Stir daily.

Feed the starter with 1/2 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons potato flakes and 1 cup water. Stir until smooth. Leave it in a warm location, 70° to 76°, for 8 hours.

Place in the refrigerator for 3 to 5 days.

Stir the mixture well. Remove 1 cup starter to make your sour dough bread.

Feed the starter with sugar, water and instant potato flakes. Stir well. Cover loosely and leave it on the counter for 2 days, stirring daily. Place it in the refrigerator for 3 to 5 days.

Simply repeat the process of stirring the mixture well. Remove 1 cup of the starter to use for your baking, needs and then feed the starter with the potato flakes, sugar and water.

If you don’t make bread, biscuits or pancakes when you feed the starter, you will need to discard 1 cup of starter at each feeding. Or give it to a friend with directions on feeding and recipes to use it in.