This process for No Knead Bread is TIME CONSUMING - and I'm not sure if I'll ever do this again...but based on my family's positive reaction, I probably will! Other than the rising process, it is a very simple recipe.
Ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour or bread flour
1/4 tsp yeast
1 1/4 tsp salt
Olive Oil, as needed
corn meal or wheat bran (optional)
Combine flour, yeast, and salt. Add 1 1/2 cup (warm) water and stir til blended; dough will be STICKY. Coat a second bowl with olive oil and transfer dough to it.
Cover with plastic and let rise for 12 hours - and up to 18 hours. When the surface is dotted with bubbles, dough is ready.
Flour your work surface generously. Sprinkle dough with flour also. Fold dough on to surface - once or twice. Loosely cover with plastic and let dough rest for 15 minutes.
Add more flour on the dough. Shape it into a ball (it will be pretty flimsy & won't hold a perfect round ball shape). Coat a cotton kitchen towel with flour and corn meal (or wheat bran); place dough seam side down on towel and dust with more flour & corn meal.
Cover with a second cotton towel and let rise another 2 hours (may double in size).
Cover and bake 30 minutes. Uncover and bake another 10-30 minutes until bread is browned.
Cover with a second cotton towel and let rise another 2 hours (may double in size).
After 1 1/2 hours, preheat oven to 500 degrees. Place a 6-8 qt heavy covered pot, such as Pyrex, in the oven as it heats. Carefully remove pot from oven and place risen dough in it, seam side up (I didn't really have any "seams" that I noticed?!?!). Shake pan once or twice to evenly distribute dough.
Cover and bake 30 minutes. Uncover and bake another 10-30 minutes until bread is browned. Cool on a wire rack.
Blissfully Domestic
4 comments:
That bread looks scrumptous, a far cry from German prison bread I grew up with :) So are you taking the German class or teaching the German class? Bis Spaeter.
Wow that is gorgeous, lots of work, But I bet it was so good!
That bread really looks good! I tried to do this recipe with wheat but it doesn't work! But yours looks great. Homemade bread really is worth all the trouble. Our families are worth the effort!
I've been wanting to give this one a try for so long, but like you, the thought of all those hours is what is keeping me from doing it.
I think I need to just give it a go this weekend.
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