Bread started from a "biga" | Just A Pinch Recipes

Bread started from a "biga" | Just A Pinch Recipes

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Unlike a sourdough starter, a biga is a fresh starter made the night before you intend to make bread. Biga is Italian; the French equivalent is poolish. As with

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Ingredients

  • - --for the biga--
  • 1 cup(s) bread flour
  • 1 tablespoon(s) course salt or 2 teaspoons table salt
  • 1 package(s) fast rising yeast
  • 1 cup(s) water
  • - --to complete the bread--
  • 3 to 4 cup(s) bread flour (increase or decrease as needed)
  • 2 tablespoon(s) olive oil

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