No Knead Bread

Amazing No-Knead Bread: Step-by-step recipe

My cousin sent this recipe to me, and took a loaf of it to my mother for her to try. Mom said it was as good as any homemade bread she's ever made. I like the fact that it's easy to make, and you bake it in a cast iron dutch oven.

I have a dutch oven we picked up at a garage sale in UT that was well used before we got it, and has been used at least once a week since we picked it up. I'd be lost with out it...It's currently in the oven now, cooking a beef stew for dinner.

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We've done this several times before.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/08mini.html

Just a few tips:

You'll need to play with the baking time a bit. Following the recipe in our kitchen tends to burn the bottom.

Using the probe thermometer is a good idea.

Play a bit with the salt, we found that going a bit more made the bread a lot better tasting.

Watch the video.

I've made others in the past, in the traditional way, but the crust is always thick.

Hopefully this recipe ends that. My wife is wanting to add craisins in the first batch...we'll see how it turns out.

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How did the crust turn out on yours? What were your results?

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I sent my mom the NYT recipe, and she makes it once or twice a week in her cast iron dutch oven. I did have to order her an aluminum knob on Amazon for the lid. Le Creuset enameled dutch ovens come with a plastic knob, and she almost forgot about that.

She lets the dough proof overnight, and yes, she found that adding a little more salt made it taste better. It's much better and cheaper than the crud they sell at the supermarket bakery.

My wife and I have not made it yet, simply because we like the ease of using the bread machine we bought new in the box at a garage sale for $10. Shame on us, because this is probably much better.

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I've always fancied myself a bit of a Dutch oven expert, but I'm not sure it gets hot enough under the covers to bake bread.

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Over here we have a type of bread that you can make when camping. its called damper, You cook it in a camp oven ~ cast iron pot, no enamel, that you bury in the coals of a camp fire. Too much heat will make the crust like concrete. The slower/cooler you cook it, the softer & lighter it becomes.

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I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

The crust is hard, crunchy and nothing close to tender, which is part of the appeal for this loaf, but may surprise some.

In boy scouts (yeah yeah whatever, I'm an eagle scout) we used to cook in a dutch oven all the time. This was similar to a dessert that we used to make, but we'd cover it in brown sugar and cinnamon. It was delicious, not really the bread itself but the fact that it was fresh baked was amazing plus the frosting. Sometimes we'd throw canned peaches in there and make it sort of a cobbler too.

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I'm partial to this bread:
Fleischmann’s Simply Homemade® Bread Mix

Disclaimer: I work for the company that makes this. It's a new product and can be found in most major grocery chains.

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If you don't "knead" the bread, why are you baking it then?

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I just put a batch of this bread together as an experiment. My wife and son are the bakers in the family, son has been apprenticing in an artisan bakery as a part time job, but he's away at school and the wife dieting.
Unable to avoid screwing around with recipes, I added 4 tsp. vital gluten and 4 tbsp. milled flax. It's resting now.

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