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Poolish

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, poolish means: A loose yeasted preferment usually made with equal weights of flour and water.

In Turkish: puliş, sıvı ön hamur

How it is used

Used in bread formulas; it is prepared before being added to the final dough.

Example sentences

  1. The poolish bubbled before it was mixed into the bread dough.

    Bubbles show activity in the separate preferment.

  2. This recipe uses a poolish made from equal flour and water weights.

    The ratio describes the loose consistency of this preferment.

Common collocations

  • poolish preferment
  • ripe poolish
  • bakeTo cook food with dry heat in an oven, especially bread, cakes, pastry, biscuits and dishes covered with a crust or sauce.
  • recipeA set of instructions for making a dish, with a list of ingredients, their quantities and the steps, times and temperatures needed.

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