[TheForge] OT bread

[schade at acegroup.cc]

If you're up for something new and better!!! follow this link.

http://fanaticcook.blogspot.com/2007/01/new-york-times-no-knead- 
bread.html

I just took out our first loaf of this "no knead bread" that has been  
passed around the www many times since it's development. There is a  
video of the making of the no knead bread.

What I did.

I don't have a dutch oven as recommended by the recipe but I saw on  
several bread blogs that it wasn't necessary. So I made my loaf on a  
cookie sheet. Worked great! Beyond expectations. The recipe also calls  
for "instant yeast". I used regular dry yeast. Worked great!  The  
recipe also called for 450F for 30 min and then taking the lid off the  
dutch oven for another 30 min. I preheated to 500F and the bread was  
done in 25 minutes. A beautiful chewy crust. Big holes. Better than the  
good bakery bread for 5$ per loaf.

Bob
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On Feb 17, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:

>
> From: "Mike" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Peggy uses one of those old mixers -- a galvanized pail sort of thing
>> with a hook-and-crank that clamps onto the top. And her bread is
>> great.  Maybe the wood stove baking offsets the deleterious effect of
>> all that late 19th c. high tech. :-)
>>
>
> Hand cranked still allows you to feel the dough. That's the important  
> part, if it isn't right it doesn't feel right and you can feel what it  
> needs to be right. Hand kneeding is one of the joys of baking bread.  
> It also brings back good memories, I remember when I graduated from  
> punching it down to kneeding. My mother and grandmother baked batches  
> of 11-13 loaves at a time. They timed it so it got out of the oven  
> after dinner or we'd just eat bread. Mmmmmmm.
>
>>> I started baking bread again and both Deb and I are hoping we don't
>>> baloon out as a result.
>>
>> Just skip those recipes that say "Take a cup of butter...". :-)
>>
>>
>> - Mike
>>
> Skip the butter? Good gravy, one of the best things about home made  
> bread is you can soak the toast through with butter and it's still  
> crunchy. I usually replace the shortning with butter and butter the  
> loaves before and after baking.
>
> Skip the butter indeed.
>
> Frosty
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