09/02/2026
👑 MEET DUCHESS — THE HEART OF STIRRED BY GOD
Did you know that nearly everything I bake begins with something that is alive?
Her name is Duchess. 👑
And she has quite a story.
When I began my sourdough journey, I didn’t create Duchess from scratch with flour and water.
I purchased a living sourdough culture from a traditional Welsh lineage said to reach back over 900 years.
I brought that little culture home, began feeding and nurturing it…and she became Duchess.
Today, Duchess is the heart of Stirred by God.
Bread. Cinnamon rolls. Cookies. English muffins. Pretzels. Pastries. Bagels. And every sourdough creation I’ve dreamed up along the way begins with her.
She looks extraordinary and very strong but she is just organic imported flour, water honey and a living community of wild yeast and bacteria bubbling away.
Even great is that everything that has come FROM her is pretty extraordinary!!
Thousands and thousands of pounds of dough.
She’s been fed more flour than I could possibly calculate. 😂 And during a busy production week, this lady WORKS.
But my favorite part of Duchess’s story isn’t how old her lineage is.
It’s how far she keeps traveling.
Every student who attends one of my Sourdough Foundations Workshops gets to take home their very own portion of Duchess. 👑
That means pieces of the same culture I bake with every week are now living in kitchens throughout our community—being fed, baked with, shared with families and sometimes passed along again.
Something was given to me.
I nurtured it.
It multiplied.
And then I gave some away.
And somehow, there was still more than enough.
Come to think of it, that sounds an awful lot like the way God works. ❤️
And now YOU can take Duchess home, too…for your own educational & experimental purposes!
When you join me for a Sourdough Foundations Workshop, you don’t just spend the day watching me make bread.
You get your hands in the dough and learn the entire process—feeding your starter, fermentation, stretching and folding, shaping, scoring, baking and troubleshooting.
Then you leave with your own Duchess starter so you can replicate that process you learned, making sourdough in your own kitchen.
Classes are intentionally small—only 8 students—so I can actually work with you and answer your questions.
So if you’ve eaten something from Stirred by God, chances are you’ve already met Duchess.
But if you take my class, you get to take a little piece of her story home with you. 👑❤️🍞
Class information & sign-up
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https://stirredbygod.com/pages/sourdough-classes-moncks-corner-sc