Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
Doh! I fed it by saving about 1/4 cup and adding another cup each of flour and water, and a tiny bit of yeast. I'm going to bake in about 6 hours...we'll see what it's like!
The poolish from yesterday had been sitting out for about 17 hours and had developed a skin on the top. What do you do with that?
Why?
Bleedin simple instructions .....
So I generally make a mix of equal plain hard Canadian white flour and water and a couple of grammes of yeast and leave it over night in my mixer bowl to save avoidable things to wash. Just a quick mix with a fork and cover it with a shower cap. Then recalculate the water and the flour I add the following day to achieve the hydration percentage I want and add the salt then. Mustn't add salt the previous day as it will kill the yeast.
You can't follow bleedin' simple instructions can you. What did you not understand about me saying this is simple.
Equal water with flour a few grams of yeast stir it a couple of times put a shower cap over it to keep the cat out and leave it until the following morning. That is it. Nothing more. No feed. No moisturiser. No piles creams.
If it has skin on it either live with it or if you are overwhelmed with the desire to interfere and do something then stir the bleedin' thing. But I promise you no one ever died of a little skin on their poolish.
ps you may of been confused because of us sort of seeing it as digression from sourdough starter.
