the recipe that changed my life
Artisan Breads in 5 Minutes a Day is a book I do not own, but am forever indebted to. From that book, a recipe was featured within an issue of Mother Earth News that I happened to buy. The summation of this wonderful recipe is: You mix flour, yeast, salt and warm water to make 4 pounds of dough. After it rises for about 3 hours you refrigerate it and it’ll keep, in its risen form, for up to two weeks. During this time you can lop off a pound at a time and make it into all sorts of yumminess. I’ve personally made pizza, caramel sticky buns and French boules. Here’s a link to the mag article and then some photos of my fun with the recipe.
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Here's the dough in the bowl I mix and store it in, it has fallen, but rises again during the resting and baking
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This is the lid I use when the dough is stored since it cannot be stored airtightly
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One pound of dough, shaped and resting for 40 minuted before baking
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The dough after the resting period, with the cute slashes in the top to allow for the rising that occurs during baking
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Going from the pizza peel (where it rested upon a bed of cornmeal to make this step easier) with a quick flick of the wrist, onto the pizza stone for baking
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The broiler pan goes on the bottom rack and is filled with hot water just after the dough is flung onto the stone. The steam makes for a crispy, “singing” crust
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Isn't it cute in there, baking at 450º for 30 minutes?
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Done! So pretty.
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My friend Jeanine loves the crust, that piece would have been for her :)
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I enjoyed it in her honor, mmmmm
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I put honey on my next piece and held it up to see the beautiful rainy day on which it was born, and eaten
Posted in Homestead Hopefuls, I made something, eatable
December 12th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Yum. I’ll have to make it sometime!
December 12th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
wow. impressive! are you going to post the recipe or tell us where to find it? that’s so cool… i really want to make pizza, but with the altitude here it’s tough. you look so cute in that pic!
December 13th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Roxie the link I embedded in the first paragraph where it says “Here’s the link” will connect you to the printable version of the recipe/article, the pizza recipe is in the article, too. Check it out! It’s really cool having the fresh dough ready in the fridge and a pound makes two pizzas. If you only made pizzas from the amount of dough in the recipe you’d get 8 out if it! I thought of having a pizza making day and then freezing all the ones we didn’t eat. That would be a big day :) I’d probably resemble a geisha girl by its end with my flour-ed face!!
December 13th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Mmm…looks super tasty.
December 28th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
cool. got it. duh. thank you! now to make time to make it!
merci!