The Easiest Way to Start Using Sourdough Is With Discard Recipes
Discarding your sourdough starter feels like a waste — get yourself some recipes to put it to good use!
Now that I’ve been initiated into the cult of the sourdough starter, I have had to figure out what, exactly, to do with it. I’m too intimidated to go with a crusty bread out of the gate (and I still need to buy a Dutch oven to do that with), and other recipes have seemed too time-consuming for my lifestyle right now. Thankfully, there are many of my friends posting on their Instagram Stories about “discard” recipes, which sent me down a little rabbit hole and into the arms of a King Arthur flour pizza dough.
In discard recipes, you’re using the amount you would be discarding in order to feed the starter in order to give that sourdough flavor to regular kinds of items, like pizza dough, pancakes, muffins, and all sorts of other flour-based goodness. Getting into discard recipes means always being reminded of the need to feed one’s starter while also doing something useful with what might otherwise go to waste. They require, typically, having some dry yeast on hand still, but…
