No-Knead Bread
2015-10-15 14:26:02
Yields 1
Here is a fun and easy recipe. It involves very little work, yet yields a great tasting loaf of bread. Be sure to read the recipe through once or twice and then enjoy!
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Ingredients
- 3 cups All-purpose or bread flour, more for dusting
- 1/4 tea. Instant yeast
- 1 1/4 tea. Salt
- 1 1/2 - 1 5/8 cups Water
- Cornmeal or wheat bran as needed.
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine flour, yeast and salt.
- Add 1 1/2 to 1 5/8 cups water, and stir until blended; dough will be shaggy and sticky.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rest at least 12 hours, preferably about 18, at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees.
- Dough is ready when its surface is dotted with bubbles.
- Lightly flour a work surface and place dough on it; sprinkle it with a little more flour and fold it over on itself once or twice.
- Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest about 15 minutes.
- Using just enough flour to keep dough from sticking to work surface or to your fingers, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball.
- Generously coat a cotton towel (not terry cloth) with flour, wheat bran or cornmeal; put dough seam side down on towel and dust with more flour, bran or cornmeal. Cover with another cotton towel and let rise for about 2 hours. When it is ready, dough will be more than double in size and will not readily spring back when poked with a finger.
- At least a half-hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 450 degrees.
- Put a 6 to 8 quart heavy covered pot (cast iron, enamel, Pyrex or ceramic) in oven as it heats.
- When dough is ready, carefully remove pot from oven.
- Slide your hand under towel and turn dough over into pot, seam side up; it may look like a mess, but that is O.K.
- Shake pan once or twice if dough is unevenly distributed; it will straighten out as it bakes. Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes, until loaf is beautifully browned.
- Cool on a rack.
Adapted from Jim Lahey, Sullivan Street Bakery
Adapted from Jim Lahey, Sullivan Street Bakery
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No-Knead Bread