Xiaoqu (small-form Chinese starter)
Xiaoqu (小曲) is a family of small Chinese grain starters for rice wines and baijiu: mixed moulds, yeasts and bacteria that convert starch and ferment it, not one strain or formula.
Ingredients
1086 articles on substrates, cultures and additives.
Fruit, vegetables and seaweedsFruit, vegetables, roots, alliums, seaweeds and algae.
Grains, legumes and nutsGrains, flours, malts, starches, beans, pulses, nuts, seeds and the coffee, cocoa and tea crops.
Mushrooms and fungiCultivated and wild mushrooms, truffles and other edible fungi, and lichens.
Meat and fishMeat, offal, fat, casings, fish, shellfish and insects.
Dairy and eggsMilk by animal, cream, butter, milk powders, rennets, dairy additives and eggs.
Cultures and startersYeasts, bacteria, moulds, koji, SCOBYs, grains and kept starters that begin a ferment.
Salt and mineralsCooking, named and curing salts, brines, alkalis and mineral additives.
Sugars and sweetenersRefined and unrefined sugars, honeys, syrups, molasses and malt sugars.
Herbs and spicesHerbs, seed and bark spices, peppercorns, chillies, aromatic roots, brewing botanicals and resins.
Additives and aidsFood acids, sulphites, preservatives, enzymes, leaveners, gelling agents, brewing additives and wrapping leaves.
Cultures and starters
Bubod (Philippine starter)
Bubod is the Philippine rice starter behind Cordillera tapuy and tapey: dry mixed-culture cakes of molds, yeasts and bacteria, plus a standardized granular version developed by DOST.
Brewer’s yeast
Brewer’s yeast is a working name for living cultures selected for brewing, not one strain or always one species. Ale and lager cultures differ, and older household books may use the term for foam or sediment from brewery beer.