The Voice of Chaos

2010/06/04

My final version of no knead bread

Filed under: Cooking,Life — admin @ 5:06 pm



Materials:
Bowl - medium mixing bowl
2 COTTON hand towels ( do not use terry)
Bread Pan or  pyrex pan or cookie sheet ect

Ingredients

3 cups of 100% whole wheat flour
1 1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp yeast
1/2 cup of shredded cheddar and onions ( OPTIONAL and not needed for 18
hours)

1 5/8 cup water ( I end up needing almost 2 cups here because its dry)

Step 1) Mix all ingredients together in a bowl. ( dough should be sticky
and not really hold its shape but almost)

step 2) cover bowl with tin foil or plastic wrap.

Step 3) Forget about it for 12-18 hours ( I leave it 18 hours) dough is
done when double the size and has pockets of air bubbles on the
surface.

Step 4) Sprinkle cotton towel generously with flour. Take dough out of
bowl and place on cotton towel. It will be sticky and soft.

Step 4 v.1 - round loaf) Fold dough onto itself 2 or 3 times and shape
into a ball. Place the dough seem side down on the towel

Step 4 v.2 - Buns) Cut dough into 12 equal pieces. fold each piece onto
itself a few times, make into balls,  set seem side down onto towel.

Step 4 v.3 Cheese buns)Cut dough into 12 equal pieces. Fold each piece
onto itself once - place some cheese on dough and fold again and turn
into a ball with cheese in the middle. Set seem side down on towel. (use onions or what ever you want to add at this time – I am going to try a ham and cheese variation soon)

Step 4 v.4 regular loaf) Fold dough onto itself 3 or 4 times shape into
a longish loaf - place seem side down on towel.

Step 4 V.5( well I have not tried any more but you get the creative
potential here by this point)

Step 6) Sprinkle dough with flour and cover with second cotton towel for
2 hours

Step 7) Preheat oven to 350 degrees 30 minutes before dough is ready.

step 8) Place cooking pan in oven ( pyrex is what I use for round bread,
bread pan for long loaf  or cookie sheet for buns)

Step 9) when timer goes off remove baking pan from oven (becareful its
hot)

Step 10 roll dough seem side UP into pan.

Step 11 Bake for 25-30 minutes ( this varies but you will know the loaf
is done when it knocks hallow) Buns can take 15-20 minutes only.

Step 11 enjoy awesome bread :)

Oh and each bun is 2 points! The trick is not eating them all on the same day :)

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