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Baking french style bread according to Peter Reinhart's recipe is all about preferments. In fact, In his Bread Baker's Apprentice book, He describes the bread as being a lean dough that is about 70% old dough. It's quite amazing how passionate the French are about their bread, but when you taste a home-made loaf, I think you could understand the passion. I adored this bread and want to share it with yeastpotting.
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Here is the preferment after being taken out of the fridge.

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Mixed in the pate fermentee with the flour, salt, water and more wild yeast starter.

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The sticky dough left to rest and rise. Since I use wild yeast, the rising took a little longer than usual.

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After about 3 hours, the dough was separated and then made into the banneton and the epi as seen here.

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The finished epi out of the oven. The crust was a beautiful golden color, and the taste was divine. I will be making this one again for sure!

4/26/2010 08:06:54 am

Your bread looks great. I haven't made a epi in a long time, but don't you love who easy it is to shape.
Also wanted to let you know that I made raisin focaccia after seeing yours and now I'm addicted. I blogged about as well , so thanks again for bringing it to my attention.

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Sandra
4/26/2010 08:35:50 am

Thanks Oriana,
I was so in a hurry this week to bake, and so I really did not take out the necessary time to take such great photos. However, I actually enjoyed this style of bread and thought to re-visit it later in the future. Thanks again for all your compliments and the spotlight in your blog.

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