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Recipes => Recipes => Baker's Corner => Topic started by: Smokin Don on March 23, 2015, 10:38:40 PM
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Mar 23 2015
About two years ago I discovered no knead bread by Jim Leahy that you baked covered in a Dutch oven. It turned out nice crusty loaves but you had to mix it the day before and let set overnight. Besides that a 5 quart Dutch oven is heavy to mess with. I baked about a half dozen loaves this way then discovered Bread in 5 Minutes a Day.
I like it a lot better, one batch mixed up will make 4 loaves and it lasts two weeks in the fridge. It only needs a two hour rise and then it says you can bake a loaf then but the dough is easier to handle after overnight in the fridge. When I am ready to bake a loaf I can do it in less than two hours. Just form your ball and let rise for 20 to 40 minutes then bake at 450 deg. for about 35 minutes. I bake mine on a Lodge cast iron griddle I preheat in the oven. I lay some parchment paper on my metal bread peel and lay the ball on it to rise. Then I just slide it and the parchment onto the griddle and remove the parchment paper after 20 minutes.
Winter is my time to bake bread but with my back operation I never got any baked. The last loaf I baked last winter was a peasant loaf; it has a ½ cup each of whole wheat and rye flour added to white flour. I had the flour left I kept in the fridge so I wanted to do a batch before it got warm and I got busy with outdoor cooking.
I mixed the dough up Sunday afternoon and wanted to bake a loaf today to go with our supper tonight. I didn’t have the dough mixed good enough; had some dry spots in it and had trouble getting a nice ball cloaked right. It was not the prettiest loaf I have done but turned out good, nice texture and a crisp crust.
It tasted good with our supper and with the over 2 inches of snow we got this afternoon it looks like I won’t be getting outside to cook for another week with cooler weather predicted.
My flour and yeast
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Dough mixed up
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After a two hour rise
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A forty minute rise, cut and ready to bake
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Cooling
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Sliced for supper
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The recipe for the standard loaf is on the back of a Gold Medal All Purpose flour bag.
Smokin Don
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Real nice Don! I'd love a slice buttered up your way! :D
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I have the 5 minute book but am still doing the overnight loaves for now. yours look great.
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I have the 5 minute book but am still doing the overnight loaves for now. yours look great.
I really think the overnight and in a Dutch oven does a little better but I love that now for two weeks I can have a loaf baked in a couple hours notice or whim. That suites me since I may just decide in the am what I am having for supper that night. Don
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Nice looking loaf Don!
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Really good looking loaf, Don. Nice job!
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WTG Don..I have had that book for a few years now and it's excellent...just let'r rise and bake...beautiful Boule you have there. Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ིྀ.
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Looking great
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I have the 5 minute book but am still doing the overnight loaves for now. yours look great.
I really think the overnight and in a Dutch oven does a little better but I love that now for two weeks I can have a loaf baked in a couple hours notice or whim. That suites me since I may just decide in the am what I am having for supper that night. Don
I hear you, I'll just be happy when things slow down enough to start baking any bread.
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Don..get a squirt bottle and some water for the dry parts...works great. Bread looks perfect tho..love rustic breads and pies and cakes, desserts and foods. Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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Just dug out my 5 minute book and started fist batch of dough. Hope to make a loaf tomorrow.
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