Sourdough Buchwheat Starter

I baked my first buckwheat sourdough bread from the rye bread starter in 2013. Rye bread is traditional in Estonia but i needed to bake gluten free because of my family members health condition. Since then i have always taken a piece of buchwheat bread dough and preserved it in a glass jar in a freezer until the next baking. Once i started a new starter from fermenting buchwheat flour and water.

I usually suggest people to find someone who already bakes good buchwheat bread and ask for a starter. It is a sure thing. Some people have tried to ferment their own bychwheat bread starter and that might succeed but might as well not. As the fermentation process is influenced by so many factors like the moon phase, the quality of bw flour, the environment of the household etc.