My first December bread for the Mellow Bakers is ciabatta. We have three choices: ciabatta with poolish, ciabatta with biga, and ciabatta with olive oil and wheat germ. Based on the recommendation of Natashya, who baked all three, I decided to try the poolish version.
We are buried under 17 inches of snow, so there's not much to do but bake. And what better than bread to go with a warm bowl of soup?
The recipe was easy, although (as usual) my bread did not need to bake for as long as specified in the recipe.
We loved this beautifully-holed, perfect-tasting ciabatta.
Perfect bread to eat with soup - gorgeous crumb shot! Maybe I can make this in the bit after Christmas... thinking.... 17 inches of snow is a massive amount of snow, how do you function?
ReplyDeleteThis looks perfect! My first bread this month was the semolina bread (yum), and I can't wait to give the ciabattas a try.
ReplyDeleteThat looks perfect! I really need to do some Mellow Baking this week, especially since I'm totally out of bread.
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