Artisan Bread

You powerfulness desire to skip downwards to the adjacent paragraph thence yous don’t bring to listen to (read) my whining.  Sometimes cooking is merely … good it’s merely a pain.  Don’t teach me wrong, I dearest to bake.  And this staff of life turned out great, too easy.  Bonus!  But I look to teach inward a rut sometimes too hitting several not-so-great recipes inward a row.  For instance, I made shrimp scampi for the showtime time.  It didn’t plow out quite similar I expected.  I intend I overcooked it a flake too had agency likewise much pasta inward the bowl thence the sauce became non-existent.  I served it alongside this staff of life however, thence that was a plus.  It wasn’t bad, merely non weblog worthy… yet.  Then I made a crock-pot barbecue chicken recipe that turned out merely so-so.  My husband’s thinks it tastes fine.  But ‘fine’ is merely non expert plenty to blog.  And to arrive all worse, all the photos turned out less than desirable.  So I bring roughly other recipe I’ll live making this evening for a birthday breakfast.  Keep your fingers crossed for me – I require a domicile run!

This is it.  Bread flour, yeast, tabular array salt too water.

Mix the flour, yeast too tabular array salt together.

Add room temperature water.

Mix until blended.  Cover the bowl tightly alongside plastic wind too a lid if yous bring it.   Leave the dough to balance at room temperature for at to the lowest degree 12 hours.  No typo – overnight is great.  I allowed the dough to sit down for well-nigh xviii hours.

The dough volition move bubbly too facial expression real thin.  I kept wondering if it was actually turning out OK.

When laid upwards to bake, pour the dough out onto a floured surface.  Sprinkle alongside additional flour too stretch the dough upward too flexure it over a few times.  Be careful non to overwork the dough.

Flour your hands too cutting the dough inward half.

Form 2 or 4 minor loaves.

Place the oblong free-form shapes on a parchment newspaper lined baking sheet.  Sprinkle alongside flour too embrace alongside plastic wind too permit rising for thirty minutes.

While the dough is rising, preheat the oven to 475 degrees.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few minutes earlier putting the loaves inward the oven, seat a pie pan filled alongside one inch of H2O on the bottom rack.  The H2O creates steam which acts equally a ‘turbo boost’ for the staff of life too gives it a non bad crust.

Bake the staff of life on the middle rack until it is a fine nutty dark-brown color.  This took well-nigh xx minutes.

Allow the staff of life to cool on a wire rack earlier serving.  Apparently this tastes improve cooled.

It was actually good, lite too non at all dense.  We served it alongside the scampi too thence the balance was made into ham too cheese Paninis on Mother’s Day for roughly of our visitors.  This was merely thence tardily too delicious!  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 span of times I idea it wasn’t going to work, but it did.  This was posted on Tasty Kitchen too correct straightaway it has 17 reviews, all perfect.  I figured it must live expert to teach that many v mitts!

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Artisan Bread

Ingredients

• 
  3
  cups
  all-purpose staff of life flour
  extra for dusting
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  Active Dry Yeast
  


• 
  1 1/2
  teaspoons
  Sea Salt
  


• 
  1 3/4
  cup
  water
  room temperature
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   In a large bowl, mix flour, yeast too salt. Add H2O too stir until blended.
   
   


2. 
   
   Cover bowl tightly alongside plastic wrap. Let dough balance at room temperature for at to the lowest degree 12 hours, or upwards to xviii to xx hours.
   
   


3. 
   
   The dough volition move swollen too bubbly. Spread 1/4 loving cup flour on the operate surface. Dump the dough onto the floured surface. Sprinkle the transcend of the dough alongside to a greater extent than flour. Stretch the dough skyward too flexure it over a few times. But don’t overwork the dough.
   
   


4. 
   
   Flour your hands too shape the dough into loaves. Place the loaves on a parchment lined baking sheet. Dust the transcend of the loaves alongside flour too embrace alongside plastic wrap. Let them rising for thirty minutes spell yous pre-heat the oven to 475 degrees. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few minutes earlier it’s fourth dimension to bake the bread, add together a pie pan filled alongside one inch of H2O to the bottom rack of the oven. Bake the staff of life on the middle rack for well-nigh xx minutes or until it’s a prissy nutty brown. Cool on rack. Serve!
   
   

Recipe Notes

Adapted from a recipe on Tasty Kitchen posted past times bermtopia. 

Have a non bad Midweek too cheers thence much for stopping by!

Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com