Start by adding all of the wet ingredients (water, oil, active starter) into the bread machine insert. Make sure that you have the paddle attached before adding any ingredients.

After all of the wet ingredients are added, continue by adding the dry ingredients (bread flour, sugar, salt.)

If you removed the insert to add the ingredients, place it back into the bread machine at this time. Select a cycle on the bread machine that will knead the dough for about 10 minutes.

After it is done kneading you can take the dough out and remove the paddle if you'd like. This will prevent you from having to remove it after it is done baking. Leaving it in is completely fine, but it will leave a hole in the bottom of your bread.

If there is not a sourdough setting, make sure that the machine will not begin to bake after a short rise time. The machine I used needed to be turned off after the 1 hour rise or it would begin baking. I simply turned it off and after the dough had risen for about 8 hours I chose the bake setting. This baked the bread for 1 hour with a medium darkness of crust.

If your machine has a sourdough setting that will keep warm for at least 6 hours, choose this setting!

After it was done baking, I removed the insert, carefully with oven mitts, and allowed it to cool until I could handle it comfortably with my hands.

The bread should easily come out of the bread machine insert. Allow it to fully cool before slicing.