Thanks for these wonderful instructions for making sourdough starter. I finally had good results but it did take a while. After 7 days and only a scattered few of the larger size bubbles on the surface of the starter, I was ready to give up and left it out on the counter, abandoned and unfed, for two days. This evening when I got home from work and lifted the cover, lo and behold, a wonderful, yeasty smell wafted into my nose and as I looked closely, what did I see but the same scattered few bubbles on the surface of the starter--and lots and lots of tiny foamy bubbles as well! Success at last! Nothing changed, temperature-wise. Could simply leaving it alone to populate itself and just do its thing be what I needed to do? Maybe it was growing, albeit very slowly, and feeding it twice a day was just too much for it. Whatever the case, I'm happy and off to look at recipes now...

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