A collection of 5 my most viral and requested recipes across all social platforms and YouTube, in an easy to read or print PDF format.These recipes can be made with active sourdough starter or discard (excluding my beginners sourdough bread recipe), and are chef created by Little Ranch Family and audience approved! Grab this great bundle if you want a fantastic downloadable and printable pdf recipe guide that will look beautiful in your home recipe book!
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.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 109 reviews.
I'm so happy I have such an active starter! It has put me on such a baking spree, I have been making countless recipes with it. The feeding guide is super simple to follow along with and keep my starter fed and happy. It showed up in the mail nicely packaged and ready for its first feeding. 10/10
After two failed attempts to make my own, I came across your Instagram page and immediately purchased your starter. So much easier and made my first loaf today, which was delicious! Thank you!
I’m brand new to sourdough and had a hard time making my own starter. So I went this route and I’m so glad I did! It was very easy to work with and it’s so delicious! In my first week ever with sourdough I’ve made two loaves and salted chocolate chip cookies which were all amazing!
This is the most beautiful starter! So active and the recipes are idiot proof! My first loaf turned out incredible and I just finished a chocolate cake—my husband is dying to know when he can slice into it and I just want a picture! Ha! Safe to say it’s been a success!
It was a long journey for the starter so it took a few days to get it going. I loved working with an established starter. The bread and bagels seemed to have much more flavor! Excited to keep it going!
Absolutely love this starter. I have been having so much fun baking and trying new recipes. Super easy to maintain, and I keep her in my fridge when I’m not baking!
The starter is very sting. I fed it the day I received it and was able to use it the same day. I made the chocolate cake and everyone loved it. It was gone before I took pictures. Made the cake a second time and this is the only picture I was able to get. Everyone says this is the best cake they’ve had.
I’ve made the Little Ranch Sourdough, the Chocolate Noir Sourdough, and the Sourdough English muffins so far. The results of each were delicious and I’ve learned some new techniques that have stretched my baking repertoire. Both of the sourdough loaves turned out dramatically amazing to look at and tasted great on first try! I felt the English muffins turned out great, but I need to improve my individual muffin rolling and browning in the cast iron skillet. It’s a bit of multi-tasking between the skillet and the oven. I’d recommend reviewing the Little Ranch’s Instagram of the recipe before going forward due to helping visualize the process. Looking forward to trying more of the recipes!
I was looking for a way to use my sourdough starter and I bought the 5 most popular recipe bundle and everything I have made has turned out well. My husband loves bagels, so organic bagels are so expensive in the store, now I can make my own sourdough organic bagels at home. I also made the english muffin recipe and classic sourdough loaf, both turned out! I love learning new skills and this purchase helped me achieve this.
I totally love this starter! It’s got this amazing smell to it, you just want to eat it🤭
It took no time at all to have a nice bubbly starter! I definitely want to get the live chocolate starter next❤️❤️
I would like a little more descriptive instruction in the directions, ex. How to best form the bagel ball and stretch it into a bagel shape without leaving seams showing. I feel someone else has tried this enough times that I could get more notes and make fewer errors in the baking.
I ordered the chocolate starter and the regular sour dough starter. I made a loaf of each a few days later after receiving. My husband said it was the best breads I had ever made.