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Would you like to make a loaf of bread like this one? My 11 year old son and husband made it! YOU can make bread like that too. It’s easy! We followed this recipe found on this youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU
Here are some written instructions for those of you plagued with slow internet like me!
3 c. all purpose flour
1/4 tsp. instant dry yeast
1 1/4 tsp. salt
Mix these dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Add 1 1/2 c. lukewarm water. Stir it all together with your hand (no spoon needed) until just mixed. Don’t use a mixer! Let dough sit in a bowl, covered, for at least 12 hours. (So, you can make the dough at night, go to bed and finish it in the morning.)
Heat oven to 500 degrees with an iron dutch oven with a lid in the oven to get it blazing hot. Pour dough out onto a heavily floured surface and pat into a round. Handle the dough as little as possible so you don’t deflate it. (Do not roll it out.) Fold dough over from each side like an envelope. There will be four folds that all overlap. Flour the outside of the bread dough heavily with wheat flour. Carefully throw dough into the preheated dutch oven, seam side up, put the lid on, bake for 30 min at 500 degrees. Then, remove lid and bake another 10-12 mins. Remove from dutch oven and cool on a rack. Cool bread before you cut.
Notes: You can put wheat in place of white flour. I used bread flour, not all purpose. You can rise it anywhere from 12-20 hours before you bake it. You can play around with the recipe and change it some. My opinion is the only things you cannot do this recipe without is the long overnight rise, the cast iron dutch oven, and mixing without a mixer. You get your flavor from the long rise, your crust from that dutch oven, your large holes from mixing without a mixer. The longer you rise it, the more sourdough flavor develops. Also, I have doubled the recipe with no problem. The recipe as is makes a rather small loaf. My kids ate it all in 10 minutes. The loaf pictured is a double recipe.
Have fun!
February 22nd, 2010 at 10:12 am
Finally and artisan bread that I can make! I’ve made white, 1/2 and 1/2 and all wheat. Thanks for sharing this link. I found your blog through a comment that you made on Guesthouse Chickens, but I think we have friends in common.