For anyone that follows me on
Instagram or
Facebook photos of bread have been prominent in my feeds and wall for this beautiful crusty bread.
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| taken with a my cell back in August- look at that amazing crust |
When my oldest daughter tried out a no knead bread recipe, I immediately started a searching out what this fab sounding bread was all about online.
The first hit of course led me to the Mark Bittman
video with Jim Lahey from Sullivan Street Bakery demonstrating his wonderfully easy process for baking no knead bread.
We regularly bought Wegman's
Garlic Tuscan Bread with it's delicious flavor and crust along with it being such a substantial heavy loaf it was a favorite for us.
Well let me tell ya :) after the first loaf came out of the oven no other loaf was going to satisfy.
I have made of course the white along with wheat, oatmeal, rosemary/garlic, just garlic, rye and seed breads.
It is so incredibly easy and this is the way I will write out the recipe for you. (the dough you are looking at was double the recipe on card below, so 6 cups flour was used)
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| 4 ingredients |
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| mixed into a wet dough |
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simply covered to let rise for 12+ hours, here the rising takes place under a small fluorescent for added warmth during cooler weather all night long.
After 14 hours I have a beautiful gooey bowl of stringy dough. At this stage treat it carefully while scraping onto the board as not to destroy the long stringy pockets of air now developed after all those hours.
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| bubbles |
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| Seeds will line the wooden proofing baskets along with cornmeal and AP flour. Here you see sesame, chia and flaxseed. |
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| the dough scraped from the large bowl onto a heavily floured bread board. |
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| baskets sprayed with PAM and dusted with seeds, cornmeal and AP flour so the dough will not stick |
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| After the dough was cut in half with scraper, each piece was folded a few times to form balls for putting in the prepared baskets. |
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| proofing for 1 hour while dutchoven and oven are preheating |
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| plop in the bottom of a HOT flour dusted dutchoven |
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| 2nd loaf |
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| first loaf |
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| Sooo good! |
We are eating the bread with German Bologna spread and Cheesy Broccoli soup tonight. Youngest daughter is going vegetarian and won't be liking the sandwich part.... The vegetarian journey of Tameryn will be another post at some point, lol.
*Let me know if you decide to make this super easy, super superb bread and the variations you come up with.
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