Pâte Fermentée also known as fermented dough or old dough is a kind of preferment which is normally made by keeping a piece of previous day’s dough for the next day’s bake. And then the next day’s dough would get pinched and kept for the following day and so on. This...
Preferments not only improve the flavour. They also improve the crust and keeping quality. There are various preferments that can be used like a flying sponge which is a quick preferment usually used in sweet bakes. Or a sourdough derived levain. Or a biga in the case...
