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