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What does the "starter" do in bread recipes such as ciabatta?

Asked by Ame_Evil (3051points) June 16th, 2010

I am following this ciabatta recipe:

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/1238/ciabatta.aspx

I was curious as to what the starter actually does to the recipe. What difference does it make to just making the whole dough together and leaving it for a day instead of doing this into two batches?

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