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August 13, 2007

Adventures in No-Knead Bread

I finally tried this bread recipe that I've been eager to try ever since reading the accompanying article, The Secret of Great Bread: Let Time Do the Work.

I couldn't believe that homemade bread would be that easy! Just mix flour, yeast, and water, let the yeast grow for several hours, fold it over once and let rise a second time for two hours, then bake. Too easy, right?

So I didn't have high hopes at the start...but as soon as I took the finished whole wheat loaf out of the oven, I was estatic. It was beautiful!

I immediately formed big plans to make a loaf of bread for us once a week...it was easy, and, unlike most recipes, it didn't make three or four loafs (which would be much too much for us, and I dislike making fresh bread only to store it!). I finished up the rest of dinner and we sat down to eat.

What a disappointment! The bread had no taste! In retrospect, it makes sense...it has nothing but flour, yeast, salt, and water...and it pretty much tastes like flour.

Terrible!

Posted by terrie at August 13, 2007 08:47 PM