Pumpernickel, Day 13

Since this is my first time trying anything with sourdough, I'm not entirely sure if it's going well or badly.  I switched over the starter's feeding to white flour, and I'm not sure it's rising, though it is getting surface bubbles.  And I poured off a quarter cup of alcohol after about a day.  So it's doing something; I'm just not sure if the pumpernickel project is trying to convert itself into a moonshine project.

But the starter is eight or nine days old now, and it's still bubbly after I feed it, even if I'm not seeing it grow, so I put it in a jar in a the fridge to hang out until I have time to do an extended baking over a weekend.

Of course, I don't have any quart jars, so I had about a cup more starter than would fit in the jar.  What do you do with a cup of sourdough starter that you don't know is good or not?

Try the bread machine's sourdough recipe, of course.

Edited to add, 1/23 - the bread machine sourdough came out okay.  It didn't rise as much as it probably would have in the summer, but the bread machine never lets the dough rise enough in the winter.  It had a bit of a bite and didn't kill us yet.