The first time I ever used a “Biga” in a recipe was probably close to 30 years ago. It was a recipe for an Italian bread, and the recipe was out of one of the food magazines, can’t remember which one. Since then I have tried some of the other preferments, including the Levain, Poolish…
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CRUSTY ENGLISH BLOOMER BREAD
Crusty English Bloomer Bread. This is new to me. I went searching for a recipe for this bread and found a couple. I went with two different recipes. One using a pate fermentee and my regular bread flour and one that was a Whole Wheat version. The first batch was a 1000g of flour, and…
HOMESTYLE WHITE BREAD
This style of bread reminds me of the loaves of bread my grandmother always made. Makes wonderful dinner rolls too. Normally I make this by hand using the Autolyze Stretch and Fold Method. But decided since I was going to be making two – 1000g flour batches I decided to do in the Electrolux Magic…