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Why corn flour on the peel?

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Hi all,

Can someone pls inform  me why it is suggested that we use cornflour or cornmeal on the peel, transfer paddle or the couche cloth instead of AP flour or regular bread flour? What's the difference?

German Many Seed Bread from WGB

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This bake was triggered by Karin's tease bake here. The recipe is from Peter Reinhart's Wholegrain breads. The bread is an enriched bread that contains lots of seeds, such as sesame, flax, sunflower, and pumpkin seeds (i used crushed walnut instead).

Panettone

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Due, quasi tre giorni di lavorazione per un buon Panettone a Lievitazione Naturale.
Almeno un giorno per mettere in forza la "madre", 12-14 ore per il primo impasto, 6-8 ore per il secondo impasto, 12 ore di raffreddamento, almeno 24 ore di riposo. Tanti tuorli, tanto burro, tanto zucchero, vera bacca di vaniglia, scorza di arancia e limone, uvetta ...

At Last! The baguette crumb I've been looking for

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Finally, I got the crumb I've been looking for, and it came about by accident.

To enlarge the crumb, I've been gradually reducing the kneading time, lowering the flour strength and increasing the hydration of my baguette doughs. Finally, I got it right on New Year's Eve, when we were having some friends over and decided that crostini would be on the menu. My wife and I were both very busy that day and I was in a rush to get the bread done, since one of our ovens went on the fritz the day before (naturally!) and so we only had one oven to work with and lots of baking.