Living Dough - 900 Year Old Sourdough Starter Culture - Active & Live Organic Sourdough Starter for Baking - For Artisanal Bread, Pizza Dough, Waffles & More

I couldn't help but be curious about a long living starter! I decided to go with the oldest one. It shipped promptly, and arrived sooner than expected. It was well packaged. The seal on the jar was intact. When it hissed open I was met with a rich aroma. I got roughly 60 grams of starter and fed it at 1:1:1 with unbleached bread flour. Very quickly I was seeing activity and a healthy rise. There was lots of active bubbling to be seen! The first time around took about 6 hours to peak, give or take. Every 1:1:1 feeding after that had it doubling and then peaking in less than 4 in my warm kitchen. I fed it peak to peak 3 times before I baked with it. The first loaf turned out beautifully! The rise in the dough was quick and consistent. I did have medium rye for 1/6th of the flour and the rest bread flour, all King Arthur Organic Unbleached. The rye does get a faster rise, but this is my usual blend and this rose noticeably faster. The dough smelled heavenly. It did have its own distinct characteristics in smell. It was fascinating to see how this starter behaved in comparison to my previous starter. Even during the long cold proofing my loaf rose a bit more with this strain. Everything looked and felt good. Definitely had a distinct higher performance. I finally got my loaf into the oven. The oven spring on the loaf was very good! The crumb was lovely. Even though I served it before it fully cooled it was still fluffy and light. The bread had delicious and distinct aromatics! This starter certainly has character. I asked the seller about this strains origins and history. They responded quickly with some really interesting information! I was so jazzed to read about it. This strain in particular is in a European Sourdough Museum (Belgium, I believe) . I'm going to look into that museum to see if I can see what details their testing found. Since this strain has some early origin lore in Wales, I had to think of a proper name. Since legends say that's where Merlin came from, I felt I needed to honor that. Since I already have a strain named Sir Lanceloaf (Since I use King Arthur flour mostly) i had to tie it all together. As I watched the starter rising it occurred to me. I named it Excalibread. If you're even the mildest bit curious, or just starting your own Sourdough Journey, I cannot recommend this brand enough. I can't recommend this strain enough! It's a powerful and healthy little starter! I was so pleased with my loaf that I decided to let Sir Lanceloaf take a fridge vacation and I'll be maintaining Excalibread on the counter for the foreseeable future. It was such a great experience all around. So, allow me to be the little Amazon devil on your shoulder, add to cart!!!

Although I am not a beginner, I needed to start over and refresh my starter and this was the best. They sent it to me inn the mail and in 4 days it was extremely active! The instructions that come in the box make it extremely easy to use and leave no grey area! Extremely high quality starter and it makes delicious baked goods I would recommend to anyone

Her instructions are simple and detailed and after two days the starter was more than doubling in size. I’ve had issues when baking with my own starter, but this starter is perfect and for once helped me create my first good loaf! I can’t wait to bake more with it!

Like many of you out there, I binge watched a LOT of how to sourdough videos.... And then took the plunge. Ordered this spunky old 900 yr old Dutch starter! It arrived a few days and opened with a loud Pop, and a lovely aroma! I fed it with 1:1:1 and said a prayer 🙏 the very next day it was bubbling over and insanely active! So I figured I'd go ahead and give it a go. I'm insanely shocked how beautiful my first loaf is.... It was like Christmas morning when I opened the oven this morning 🥰 I highly recommend this high quality starter.... (I also made Claire Saffitz sourdough pancakes this morning and they were incredible!!) If you're on the fence and nervous about sourdough, don't be.... It's very easy to do!!

This starter made my sourdough taste better! Easy risen, feed them for only a couple of days to get a very active starter. I will try another one soon:)