This amazing starter traces its roots back to the San Francisco gold rush (really!!) but has been living and mingling with Kensington Markets eclectic denizens for the past several years. It’s been in continuous use since 1850!
This starter makes great bread. See our reviews below!!
Each order includes a packet of dry starter along with detailed instructions for activating and maintaining the starter, as well as links to some great recipes! It’s pretty fool proof and you will be baking amazing loaves in no time.
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We work really hard to keep this incredible starter happy and healthy, and we hope you will love it as much as we do. Happy baking!
New to the world of Sourdough Baking? Please see our article What is a Sourdough Starter (And why you should want one!)
Customer Reviews
It came yesterday thank you very much. I am not making my sourdough for another week.
I made five loaves of sourdough with the Kensington starter and every person I gave a loaf to said it was the best sourdough they ever had. I didn't tell anyone that it was the Kensington starter they just thought I did something different with my other starter. Its so good.
I have used Kensington Market's 150 year old SF starter a few times over the last 7 years - and never disappointed. It jump starts your own process and develops into a robust starter each time. All I have to do is not take a 3 year break from sour dough baking and this should keep me in bread, pancakes and pizza for years to come. thanks!
A few years ago I made my own sourdough starter from fresh flour and spring water. After a few trial-and-error attempts, it finally worked, and I was able to bake some really nice sourdough bread with it for a few years. However, after a long vacation, my starter didn’t survive in the fridge. So I spent a year baking bread with dry yeast, but after a while I started missing my sourdough bread. I decided to search online and ended up finding “Kensington Market Sourdough” in Toronto, Canada.
Order placed and soon received the San Francisco Sourdough Starter. I immediately started working with the included manual, and within a week I had a very active, usable sourdough starter. I just kept the flour/water ratio 1/1 because with the indicated amounts of water it becomes too runny, whereas people always talk about a pasta-like sourdough starter. There’s probably an error in the conversion from ounces/cups to grams (I live in Belgium and never work with cups/ounces, only with grams and centiliters. Also, we use the temperature in °C, and not in °F).
Yesterday I made my first 2 loaves with this “San Francisco Sourdough Starter” and ….. they taste absolutely delicious.
Maintaining a sourdough starter is also super easy, I use rye flour to maintain my sourdough starter in a 1:1:1 ratio (sourdough/water/flour).
I can only highly recommend this sourdough starter; for me, it’s definitely a great find.
Many thanks, “Kensington Market Sourdough”
Willy
I am sorry happy with the results on my Sourdough Starter
On fifth day bubbles were happening 🥰
On 6th day she overflowed wek jar so moved to a little bigger jar
On 7th day she overdoubled. A name came to me...Gloria....she was in all her glory. Am trying to know what is the best bread recipe for Gloria
