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 08:47 PM