Easy Peasy Bread Recipe......I Know! I Know! Why Am I Doing Recipes?
Well I have been making this wonderful bread with only four ingredients and over the holidays I brought the bread to dinners and parties (showing off and cheaper than wine) !
I had quite a few people ask for the recipe, which I have adapted from a previous recipe.
It is pretty easy to mess up bread making and most people think it requires a lot of time with kneading and resting etc, etc, so did I! Not so!
OK so here is my version, makes one loaf of crusty white bread.
Ingredients:
1 Tbls Active Dry Yeast or 1 Packet.
1 Tbls Kosher Salt
3 Cups of All Purpose Flour
2 Cups of Water ( 110 degrees F)
(Notice how this bowl was used earlier to make bread, this is a good way to get a sour dough type bread.) In a large bowl add yeast and salt
Add water, stir gently.
Add flour, mix with a wooden spoon until combined. Do Not over mix.
Dough should be moist and loose to allow it to rise in bowl, add more water if necessary.
Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let sit in a warm spot for about three hours.
I always refrigerate the mix before baking as it is much easier to work with an hour or overnight.
Take the bread mixture out of the refrigerator and allow to rest for about an hour.
Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees
Spray Pam on a cookie sheet and dust with flour.
Flour your hands and sprinkle the dough with flour, unless you want it to stick to everything!
Scoop up the dough ball and just pull it together into an oblong shape.
Place on the cookie sheet and cut two or three slashes in it.
Place in the oven on the middle shelf.
Put two cups of boiling water in a cake pan.
Quickly open the oven door and put the cake pan on the bottom shelf.
ALERT!!! I JUST TOLD YOU TO PUT BOILING WATER IN A CAKE PAN AND QUICKLY OPEN THE DOOR TO A 450o OVEN!! BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!
Bake for 30 mins, remove and tap bottom of bread, if it sounds hollow it is done.
Allow to cool on a wire rack and keep the rest of the family away from it.
Bon Appetite!!!!
The dough tastes better the more time it has in the fridge, once cooked it does not keep (no preservatives) so eat it or freeze it. You can also freeze the dough.
OK that wasn't so bad!
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