Reprinted from The Blood Type Diet Website (www.dadamo.com)
No-Knead Bread
Contributed by: Peter D'Adamo | Added: Oct 01, 2007 at 10:12 AM |
Description:
This is the bread recipe that I wrote about in my blog a while back. Adapted from Jim Lahey, Sullivan Street Bakery, as reported in the NY Times.
Ingredients:- 3 cups all-purpose or bread flour, more for dusting
- 1/4 teaspoon instant yeast
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- Cornmeal, flax husk or wheat bran as needed.
How to make it:- In a large bowl combine flour, yeast and salt.
- Add 1-5/8 cups water, and stir until blended; dough will be shaggy and sticky.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap.
- Let dough rest at least 12 hours, preferably about 18, at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees.
- Dough is ready when its surface is dotted with bubbles.
- Lightly flour a work surface and place dough on it; sprinkle it with a little more flour and fold it over on itself once or twice.
- Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest about 15 minutes.
- Using just enough flour to keep dough from sticking to work surface or to your fingers, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball. Generously coat a cotton towel (not terry cloth) with flour, wheat bran or cornmeal; put dough seam side down on towel and dust with more flour, bran or cornmeal.
- Cover with another cotton towel and let rise for about 2 hours. When it is ready, dough will be more than double in size and will not readily spring back when poked with a finger.
- At least a half-hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 450 degrees. Put a 6- to 8-quart heavy covered pot (cast iron, enamel, Pyrex or ceramic) in oven as it heats.
- When dough is ready, carefully remove pot from oven. Slide your hand under towel and turn dough over into pot, seam side up; it may look like a mess, but that is O.K.
- Shake pan once or twice if dough is unevenly distributed; it will straighten out as it bakes. Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes, until loaf is beautifully browned.
- Cool on a rack.
- Yield: One 1½-pound loaf.
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