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tvashtarkatena

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Pretty easy:

 

Mix 1/3 teaspoon dry active yeast in 1 1/2 cups warm (110-115) water

 

Add water+yeast to:

 

3 cups King Arthur Bread Flour

1/3 teaspoon salt

 

mix with a wooden spoon until too thick use spoon anymore

 

Mix with hands for 3 to 5 minutes. Dough will still be wet and sticky when you're done

 

put dough in lightly greased cast iron dutch oven or other cast iron lidded pot

Set in warm place covered for 8 to 12 hours

 

Heat oven to 450F

 

Bake in dutch oven for 15 minutes with lid on

 

Add 1/4 cup warm water to pot, bake for another 15 minutes with lid on

 

Bake for 15 minutes with lid off

 

Let bread cool for 15 minutes

 

Fucking de-lish. 50-75 cents a loaf (if you buy your flour in bulk). Actual work time is less than 10 minutes.

 

 

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I thought my wife was doing a casserole as 4she had fired up the slow cooker yesterday with a bunch of beans and stuff in it. So I stopped and bought a baguette from the French Bakery (man, it's spot on the money like Parisian bread).

 

Turns out she was making Burritos. At the burritos and the entire baguette too last night. Damn that stuff is soooooo friggan good. Love French food.

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I've got a bread machine my gal and I bought for $1 at a street sale in Dillon, MT. You just put all the shit into it and push a button and it creates bread. Awesome.

word. i've even learned how to press the button.

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I decided to try and improve my french by reading Harry Potter novels. In the first paragraph of the book one of the characters pulls a 'baguette' out of his jacket. It took me a few pages to figure out that is was a wand and not a loaf of bread. :blush:

 

I'll have to give that recipe a try.

 

Got any tips on how to make a good pizza dough? The last ones turned out hard and flavourless as well and not being easy to form.

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