Mia’s Freshly Baked Poolish Bread
Last week ceramist Mia Blanche shared a day in her life with us, and amidst her routine of taking her children to school in the snow, creating in her studio and picking up supplies for school trips, we saw her making the time to wake up and bake ‘Poolish’ bread every morning!
Intrigued and thinking it must be a great recipe if she managed to fit it into her busy routine, we asked her to share it with us. In my opinion there is nothing like the smell of fresh bread wafting through the house on a cold morning to make me feel ready to embrace the day. Nothing says ‘wake up’ than good, warm and crusty bread spread thickly with just butter and a pot of coffee…
Here is Mia’s recipe for ‘Freshly baked Poolish Bread’ accompanied by her wonderful pictures. Louise x
Mia’s Freshly Baked Poolish Bread
‘Poolish’ is an amazing bread that be made with a miniscule amount of bakers yeast. It is the one dough that can’t be kneaded by hand – it’s just too wet and sticky, so this is a great recipe for a busy person it just takes some preparation beforehand. It’s the wet dough that results in a nice crusty holey bread. Poolish bread also has some of the lovely flavours of sourdough so is really tasty eaten on it’s own with butter.
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