GRIT Country Skills Series

Overnight Starter for 3 Batches of Bread

Ingredients

• 6 cups bread flour
• 11⁄2 tsp fine sea salt
• 11⁄2 tsp instant yeast
• 21⁄2 cups tepid water
• 1 tbsp oil

European breads are frequently made with an overnight starter, called a poolish or biga. This way of developing dough — which I learned from Peter Reinhart, of The Bread Baker’s Apprentice.

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