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- noun Plural form of
poolish .
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Examples
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Bigas and poolishes and oh my god, all of these steps and seriously, are there any breads you can make in just a few hours and really, it was very humbling.
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Like a good foodist, I immediately read up, consulted the websites and began struggling with sourdoughs, bigas, poolishes, fresh yeasts and stoneground flours and within a month had decided that being neither a yoghurt-bothering earth mother with forearms like hams nor permanently welded to an AGA this wasn't going to happen.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk Tim Hayward 2010
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I replaced the stiff sourdough with two consecutive poolishes amounting to the same amount of flour; the water in excess was subtracted from the first dough.
The Fresh Loaf nicodvb 2010
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Like a good foodist, I immediately read up, consulted the websites and began struggling with sourdoughs, bigas, poolishes, fresh yeasts and stoneground flours and within a month had decided that being neither a yoghurt-bothering earth mother with forearms like hams nor permanently welded to an AGA this wasn't going to happen.
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