Genuine 49er Sourdough Bread Starter

It's impossible for someone to send you genuine 49er sourdough bread starter when they live in Texas or Florida or anywhere else but 49er country. This is because no matter where the bread starter originated over a bit of time the original yeast variety dies off gradually and is replaced with whatever yeast variety is common for your area- so you will get whatever yeast is common in the place you are recieving the culture from and in turn unless special steps are taken, at your house it will become what yeast is common in YOUR area.

San Fransisco yeast for the famous San Fransisco sourdough bread is different then the original 49er yeast caught up in the gold country of California. The yeast in San Fransisco is unique to the salt air, plants, and climate of San Fransisco. Only those living in or near San Fransisco can provide you with that particular yeast variety. Each and every area has it's own particular strain of yeast/s and each and every strain can taste and behave just a bit differently.

I have a 49er yeast culture because I live in 49er country in the foothills of California and that is the common yeast here. The yeast is the original yeast 49ers caught and kept while looking for gold in these foothills. It is about 3 months old

I am offering up a small dried packet of the 49er yeast with instructions about how to revive it, keep it going and if you wish how you can preserve my strain of yeast for as long as possible. I can offer a white flour sweet culture made with milk (essentially an Amish type starter), sugar and white flour or a wheat culture which has a definate sourness to it which is made up of only bottled water and wheat flour.

Once you recieve this dried culture you rehydrate it and feed it and it will spring to life for you. The wild yeast has made the best breads I have ever tasted. I have also made pretzels and muffins and there are so many more possibilities I havn't even touched on yet.

Want 49er authentic flapjacks? This is the yeast culture you need.

Pictured is a batch of pretzels from the white flour culture starter that went a bit wrong LOL. I fell asleep while they were rising so they sat overnite, they still looked like risen pretzels in the morning. I put them in the oven and they rose so much AGAIN that they look like fancy dinner rolls instead of pretzels. Also pictured is muffins I made with the white flour culture that are really yummy. It's fun, it's educational for the kids, it's not overly hard to keep up and it tastes great.

If you'd like some, email me and for $5.00 paypal I'll send you a packet of dried bread starter that is dried the day before or the day you order for optimum freshness of the yeast plus instructions to restart it and keep it going plus recipe info via email. I will send a packet for free with hatching eggs orders if the buyer requests it.