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Poolish

This page first published: Jun 18, 2004 · Updated: Apr 12, 2020 · by CooksInfo. Copyright © 2021 · This web site may contain affiliate links · This web site generates income via ads · Information on this site is copyrighted. Taking whole pages for your website is theft and will be DCMA'd. See re-use information.
Poolish

Poolish. © CooksInfo / 2020

Poolish is a starter leavener made from equal amounts of flour and water with a small amount of yeast added. You let it rise until it’s about double in size. This should take about 2 1/2 hours tops at room temperature.

There are other variations to the recipe, which change the amounts of flour, water, and time which should be allowed for it to rise, sometimes requiring overnight.

When the poolish is ready, you use all of it in making your bread by adding in your other ingredients such as more flour, water, salt, etc.

When used instead of a sourdough-type starter, it makes a bread that is lighter, finer, and sweeter, because it does not have the sour or acidic tang of a starter.

Beginning with a poolish is still considered the method of choice for making French baguettes.

History Notes

The method was developed in Poland, possibly by the 1830s, at the time when baker’s yeast became commercially available. From Poland, it was adapted by the Austrians, and then brought to France where it was first used in making “pain viennois”.

Tagged With: Baguettes, French Food, Poolish

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