Soaked Bread Recipe

Mom recently found this bread recipe online, while looking for a bread recipe with soaked flour. It's a little bit like sourdough, and needs to soak overnight, but its really simple and easy! It's also delicious and is quickly becoming a family favorite! I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

No Knead Bread Recipe

Ingredients:
3 cups bread flour
1/4 teaspoon instant yeast
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups warm water

Covered pot (five-quart or larger cast iron, Pyrex, ceramic, enamel...something that can go into a 450F oven.)
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1. Mix dough: The night before combine all ingredients in a big bowl with a wooden spoon until dough just comes together, it will be a shaggy, doughy mess. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit 12-20 hours on countertop.

2. Shape and preheat: The dough will now be wet, sticky, and bubbly. With a wet spatula dump dough onto a floured surface. Fold ends of dough over a few times with the spatula and nudge into a ball shape.    (You can use your hands just keep your hands wet so that the dough does not stick.) Generously dust a cotton towel (not terrycloth) with flour. Set dough seam side down on top of towel. Fold towel over the dough. Let it nap for 2 hours. when you've got about a half hour left, slip your covered pot into the oven and preheat to 450F.

3. Bake: Your dough should have doubled in size. Remove pot from oven. Holding towel, turn over and dump wobbly dough into pot, using your hands to get the dough off the towel. Doesn't matter which way it lands. Shake to even dough out. Cover. Bake 30 minutes. Uncover, bake another 15-20 minutes or until crust is beautifully golden and middle of loaf is 210F. Remove and cool on wired rack.

Delicious bread, baked by Mom.

 Recipe taken from: 2007 Steamy Kitchen, Inc. http://steamykitchen.com/168-no-knead-bread-revisited.html