First Time Bread Baker | Attempt One
To be honest, bread seemed really intimidating to me. Since its so easy to buy, and you hear so many talk about how hard it is to bake bread. However this summer I visited dear friends of mine, and they make bread. Well, Anna bakes bread. It all seems very simple and well time consuming but not difficult. So when I was given the bread + cheese platter for one of my best friends baby shower, it seemed the perfect opportunity. I didn't own a dutch oven, nor was I at all informed by the true task of baking bread. My sister came to my rescue... a baby sitter if you will. She face timed me the night I stirred it all up, and came over in the morning, let me barrow her dutch oven and stayed till it was all golden crust! So I send all my gratitude to Dough vs Girl and my sister!
Now I went with the simplest of recipes that my sister uses! And I've broken it down and photographed my experience below.
http://www.girlversusdough.com/2015/08/13/no-knead-dutch-oven-bread/
I made two batches. Left - Plain bread . Right - Rosemary bread
3 cups of flour
2 tsp of salt (for the plain bread)
2 tsp of garlic salt (for the rosemary bread) + rosemary
1 Tsp (one packet) of red star ACTIVE DRY YEAST
Mix until just mixed.
cover with siranwrap or something. I used parchment and then a cloth on top.
leave over night in a warm space in your home.
Turn oven on to 450 and place dutch oven inside as well!
Flour up and scoop on pan. Will use quite a bit of flour to ensure its not too sticky to mold into roundness.
Once round and cute on its pan, cover again with cloth and let rise for 30 minutes at least.
If you so desire, you can slit an X or just a line to allow a crack .
You can't totally tell in this photo, but pick up the borders of the parchment paper and plop into the dutch oven.
Cook with cover on for 40/45 minutes. Then take the dutch oven top off and let bake for 8-10 minutes to make it all golden!
