Artisan Bread

Name: Artisan Bread
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cup bread flour; 1 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp instant yeast; 1 1/2 cup cool water; 1 additional flour for dusting; Baking parchment; 1 cup boiling water

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Artisan Bread

TheBulldog @thebulldog

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Ingredients

3 cupbread flour
1 1/2 tspsalt
1/4 tspinstant yeast
1 1/2 cupcool water
1additional flour for dusting
Baking parchment
1 cupboiling water

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Steps

1

In medium bowl stir together flour salt and yeast
2

Add the water and mix thoroughly. You will have a wet sticky dough.
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Cover this with plastic and lets it rise 18 to 20 hours. Do not refrigerate.
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You will know it's ready when you see small bubbles on the surface of the dough and it will have doubled in size.
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After the dough has risen scrape the dough out of the bowl in one piece and dust the surface of the dough with flour. Flip it around a time or two, adding flour as needed until it is fairly dry. Then nudge the dough into 12 to 14 inch square.
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Fold the dough in half about ten or twelve times adding flour on your folding surface as you go and the flour is absorbed--do this until it is of a firm consistency. Once the dough is "doughlike".
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Place the dough in a warm spot and cover with a clean cloth and let rise for one to two hours more.
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Preheat oven to 475°F.
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For a crackly Artisan crust you will have to create a steam oven. This is done by placing a metal pan such as a baking sheet (with rim) in the oven during pre heat so that it heats up with the oven.
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Once the oven is pre-heated put a sheet of baking parchment onto a baking sheet. Bring one cup of water to a boil.
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Now dust the baking parchment with flour and divide the dough into two pieces. Stretch them to about 12 inches and place them on the baking sheet.
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Put the dough into the oven and let it bake for a minute or two. After a minute or so very carefully, but quickly, pour the boiling water onto the metal pan below which has been heating on the lower rack of the oven--and quickly close the door of the oven to trap the steam. Be very careful because this will create very hot steam.
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Let bake for approximately 20 minutes or until crust of bread is golden brown.
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Enjoy the smell!