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Poolish Bread

This will revive your dough ready for baking same morning.

Equipment

  • Stand mixer with dough hook

Instructions

  • Put the bowl of the mixer and zero. Add the older dough and check the weight. You can add new flour, water and salt to about the same weight.
  • Add the flour and water in a proportion of 2 to 1. eg 400 g flour and 200 ml water and a tsp of salt, packet of yeast
  • Mix with the stand mixer for about 8 minutes, starting slowly for 2 minutes and then speed up
  • Add a tiny amount of flour or water as needed
  • Allow to rise for an hour
  • Empty the dough out from the bowl and shape as you would want to and allow to rise again