Originally Posted by
Onebyone
I bought the starter from King Arthur Flour. Buy the kit with the crock, you will be glad you did. My grandmother would saturate a clean piece of muslin with the starter, let it dry, and when she needed new starter she would use the dry cloth to reconstitute. I keep several pieces of dry starter muslin in a vacuum seal bag. Starter can be kept alive for decades.
that is extremely interesting, I should try that, I don't make bread often enough to keep my starter from finishing! (getting rotten)