My parents made sourdough bread for many years. They have now passed and we have lost our starter.I am trying to make my own sourdough starter so I can continue the tradition of homemade sourdough bread. Yesterday I mixed my starter, placed it in a half gallon jar, covered with a piece if cheesecloth secured with a rubber band and set inside my microwave (My husband keeps the house cold like the inside of a refrigerator. That is the warmest place I could find) After a few hours I checked on it and it had swollen, bubbled and overflowed the jar. This morning I checked it and it no longer had bubbles, had shrunk and had a clear liquid sitting on top of it. Should I toss it or feed it?

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