Bread made with a preferment will not only taste more complex ... (Yum.) Think baguettes, rustic boules, and Bryan’s Pullman loaf too. Biga is the generic Italian term for preferment, but ...

Child built a repertoire of skills in transforming tough dough into the softest slices of bread that spotlight her French training and rustic rural ... suggests using a preferment mixture of ...

This bread recipe calls for simple ingredients, but boasts plenty of flavor thanks to the preferment, which gives the bread a superior flavor and texture and improves the loaf's keeping qualities.