Do you like artisan bread? This piece makes amazing looking and tasting breads. If you haven't tried it you need to try these super easy recipes in your dutch oven. The no-knead method is easy and you will be so impressed with yourself. One of my all time favorites is a raisin walnut bread. It's a meal in itself. Nothing beats bread fresh from the oven. The bread baked in a dutch oven has a very crisp crust and a delicious moist interior.
Ingredients:
3 Cups of bread flour (It must be bread flour)
1/2 Cup Raisins (White raisins are my favorite and dried cranberries are yummy, too.)
1/2 Cup chopped walnuts (Pecans are good, too.)
1 1/4 salt
3/4 teaspoon of Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of dry active yeast
about 10 turns of pepper from a pepper mill
1 1/2 Cup of very cold tap water
Mix everything together with a wooden spoon until the dough is mixed and a little sticky. Place in a bowl and let sit for about 12 to 16 hours covered with plastic wrap.
Flour a surface and dump the dough onto it. Fold the dough over two times. Place on a floured cloth and cover with the ends of the cloth or another one. After the dough has been rising for 1 1/2 hours put the covered dutch oven in the oven on the rack lowered 1/3 from the bottom. Preheat to 475 degrees. After the dutch oven has been in the oven for 1/2 hour take out (It is "very" hot! Please be careful!) and turn the dough out from cloth into the dutch oven. Cover and return to the oven. After 30 minutes uncover and cook for another 15 minutes. Take out of the oven and turn the bread out onto a cooling rack. Let it cool a little while and then enjoy! You will be hooked!
When I come home over the summer we have to make bread! slash you have to have me over for dinner. :)
ReplyDelete-Kayla