No-Knead Bread Recipe (It’s corona diaries time)
Based on NYT 24H recipe by Mark Bittman
who credited Jim Lahey, owner of Sullivan Street Bakery.
To make no-knead bread, combine 3 dry ingredients and water. Wait a bit. Bake.
430g flour
15g salt
1g yeast
Weigh the flour – 430g -or 15 and a bit oz.
Bread flour is best – but as it’s hard to find right now (March 2020) this is just regular “All-Purpose” white flour.
Salt – 15g
No need to weigh separately – you can just re-tare and add to the flour. (My brother complained that his first effort was a bit too salty – but that’s just my brother. Please feel free to experiment, and the original recipe called for significantly less – 5g I think).
Fast-acting yeast – 1g
It doesn’t seem to matter if you use a bit more by accident!
Mix the three dry ingredients together
Fingers or a fork works fine.
Weigh 345g of water
Tepid.
or 1 and 2/3 cups
If you would rather measure it than weigh it.
Add the water to the dry ingredients
Only stir clockwise.
Mix
Fingers or a fork works fine.
Cover with a tea-towel
Or something else that isn’t air-tight.
Wait 18-24H
Before baking or shaping
This is what it should look like.
Dust a chopping board with flour
And scrape the bad-boy out of the bowl.
Plop
You can fold it over a couple of times now. The “No-knead bread” part is that you waited 18~24 hours rather than kneading. At this point, you just wait a little longer. (The original recipe calls for waiting 2 hours for the bread to rise again at this point. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t)
Make it somewhat bread shaped
And slice the top a couple of times.
Pre-heat the oven and pan
Put a Dutch oven in the oven at 450F / 230C
Drop it into the very hot pan
Once the oven and pan are up to temp, remove the pan and remove the lid. Carefully drop the blob into the pan. Don’t worry too much about what it looks like. It will be eaten in a matter of minutes, so who cares?
Bake for 30 minutes with the lid on
This is a good time to sell your house.
Bake for 10-15 minutes more with lid off
Until it’s brown and crunchy-looking.
Leave to stand for 15 minutes
Then slice and eat it all. Best with crunchy peanut butter in my opinion, but it works with other things too!
Rohan says:
I was looking for a rugged laptop, but this bread looks up to mil spec too
mkelvin says:
Actually the bread is Mill-Spec.