Bread may be my favorite food in the world.
I am working on no-knead recipes from breadtopia.com. I don't have all the tools he uses so I looked up the original no-knead recipe featured by Mark Bittman on his NYtimes blog. The baker, Jim Lahey, makes his in a Le Creuset instead of a Le Cloche. So much french bakeware. Any heavy covered stone/ceramic/dutch oven etc etc will do.
Mine turned out like this:
Its called no-knead because you combine the ingredients and let it sit overnight or so. The time apparently makes up for the kneading and allows for a very wet dough- which makes the big holes inside. I used a wild sourdough starter that I made using the recipe found on breatopia.com. But im not sure it made a huge difference.
I really like the loaf with some flavor additions- garlic and rosemary was REAL good. It lasted 1.5 days between the two of us.
3 comments:
delicious! truly delicious! and pretty too.
Wynn that looks like heaven! Tell me why to use a sourdough starter. Can you not make sourdough bread without it?
That is one gorgeous loaf. Hope you plan to bake some while you are here. Yahhh!
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