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Baking fougasse straight from fridge

Cellarvie's picture
Cellarvie

Baking fougasse straight from fridge

Anybody know if fougasse can be refrigerated shaped overnight, and then baked straight from the fridge the next day?  I thought it might be good to give as a guest gift for a "foodie" who's invited us for a meal, but won't have time to bake on the day, so I wondered if I could get it proofed, shaped and refrigerated the day before and then bake early the next morning.  What do you think?  Any advice from you knowledgable TFL-ers would be much appreciated.

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MichaelLily

Do whatever you do with baguettes.  I suppose it would work, but the flavor and crust might be a little different.  Which is fine since you're not making reams of them for sale.  

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Cellarvie

Thanks MichaelLily, "think baguettes" makes sense and I hadn't thought of that.