Sunday, October 31, 2010

Magic Bread

I'm late to jump on the bandwagon, but the no-knead bread experiment led to finding a 2006 YouTube video with Mark Bittman of the New York Times, watching baker Jim Lahey bake beautiful no-knead bread in a cast iron dutch oven. A follow-up video details minor improvements. Here I've substituted one cup of whole wheat flour for white, but otherwise followed the improved version. All it contains is flour, salt, yeast, water and a few drops of vinegar. Wow. Incredibly easy, and it may just be the best yeasted whole wheat bread I've ever made.

2 comments:

  1. Looks fantastic, Ellen. I'm glad you're having luck with this - it's so easy, so delicious, so "soul satisfying".


    I'll have to try the whole wheat version . . .

    Jeri

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  2. Thanks for this Ellen and for your next post too. It's a lovely illustration. Happy autumn to you and yours.

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