Little Ranch Family's Live 118 Year Old Valrhona CHOCOLATE Sourdough Starter
Little Ranch Family's Live 118 Year Old Valrhona CHOCOLATE Sourdough Starter
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Chocolate Sourdough Starter
Our long-fermented chocolate sourdough starter is finally here. Made from our 118-year-old legacy starter and fed with rich dark Valrhona cocoa, it’s bold, balanced, and completely wild — just like our original! Beautifully hand packed and made with love.
Perfect for making our Chocolate Noir Loaf, Double Chocolate Sourdough, Chocolate Pancakes, Our Viral Chocolate Cake & Many More!
The Question I Get Asked The Most: “Why use a chocolate sourdough starter? Why not just add cocoa to my dough?”
The fermented chocolate flavor of this sourdough starter is truly not replicable by simply adding cocoa to your ingredients. Hundreds of you have been skeptical-and after trying it will never go back! This adds such an incredible depth of flavor and can be used in any sourdough recipe you’d like to make chocolate! I truly am so happy to share this amazing sourdough starter with you. 🤎
Meet Our 118-Year-Old Live Sourdough Starter
That changed my life and my baking journey—and I know she’ll do the same for you!
I know how frustrating building a sourdough starter from scratch can be, and how defeating it feels when your bread doesn’t turn out. But everything changed for me the day I inherited this robust, 118-year-old live starter. My sourdough game transformed overnight 18 years ago—and yours can too.
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What She’s Fed With
What She’s Fed With
What’s Inside
What’s Inside
The Story Behind “The Bitch”
This starter has been alive since 1907 and has only lived in three households—mine included. I received the last remaining portion of her as a birthday gift from my half-brother. It belonged to his grandmother and had already been in her family for a century.
At the time, I had just finished culinary school and was working as a young chef in San Francisco. One of the books that inspired me to become a chef as a child—Kitchen Confidential by the late Anthony Bourdain—told a story about a starter named “The Bitch.” She made incredible bread. So does ours.
This starter is a piece of our family, and we’re honored to share her with you. When she arrives in your home, we encourage you to name her—make her part of your own story. She’s meant everything to us, and we know she’ll mean something to you too.