Artisan Bread In Five Minutes!

2 ratings

Makes 4 loaves over 4 days

Artisan bread that could not be easier to make and it is totally delicious! Crusty on the outside with that taste of sour dough... a bread lover’s dream!

ingredients

1 1/2 tablespoons yeast
1 1/2 tablespoons salt
6 1/2 cups unbleached flour, more for dusting dough
3 cups of water, room temperature
cornmeal

directions

1
In a large bowl or plastic container, mix yeast and salt into 3 cups lukewarm water (about 100 degrees). Stir in flour, mixing until there are no dry patches. Dough will be quite loose. Cover, but not with an airtight lid. Let dough rise at room temperature 2 hours or up to 5 hours.
2
Bake at this point or refrigerate, covered, for as long as two weeks. When ready to bake, sprinkle a little flour on dough and cut off a grapefruit size piece with serrated knife. Turn dough in hands to lightly stretch surface, creating a rounded top and a lumpy bottom. Put dough on pizza peel sprinkled with cornmeal; let rest 40 minutes. Repeat with remaining dough or refrigerate it.
3
Place broiler pan on bottom of oven. Place baking stone on middle rack and turn oven to 450 degrees; heat stone at that temperature for 20 minutes.
4
Dust dough with flour, slash top with serrated or very sharp knife three times. Slide onto stone. Pour one cup hot water into broiler pan and shut oven quickly to trap steam. Bake until well browned, about 30 minutes. Cool completely.

notes

This bread is the most awesome recipe I have ever learned how to make! So, simple... which just proves that in life, sometimes the simplest things are the best things!

Source: Barbie Miller