Thursday, February 26, 2009

Artisan Bread


Soooo easy!
No kneading.
Four ingedients.
Five minutes a day.

16 comments:

Unknown said...

Recipe?

Molly Bice-Jackson said...

PLEASE GIVE RECIPE!!

Sharalea said...

recipe...

Linda said...

what a TEASE?!
I love the looks of it!
the taste.. you tell us!

Pack of Robinsons said...

I'll start the puns:

Did it cost you a lot of dough?
It obviously got a rise out of you.

Continue everyone...

paynejandj said...

First of all it come from the book "Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day" by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois. The book is totally worth purchasing (my friend/neighbor lent it to me and now I want one for myself).

I started to type out the recipe but I am going to direct you to this blog since she has it in greater detail.

http://krisgardens.blogspot.com/2008/01/artisan-bread-in-five-minutes-day.html

The taste is absolutely delicious. One thing to note- you don't have to use kosher salt if you don't have it. Use 3/4 Tbl spoon table salt instead (I hope that is correct). The authors said they could not taste the difference. If you don't have a pizza peel (the big pizza spatula) you can use a cookie sheet without sides so you can slide it off onto your hot pizza stone. I have also lifted it off with my hands- it just doesn't look as pretty. I have not tried to bake it on anything other than a pizza stone though. Let me know if you try it with out.

Ranch Mom said...

It looks gorgeous, does it taste like french bread, or what? MOM

Krista Payne said...

Looks delicious!

Pack of Robinsons said...

It looks so good! Do they have whole wheat varieties? Jenny

paynejandj said...

I made it with white flour the very first time and then with white/wheat combination. I like it w/ wheat flour the best!

Lindsay said...

So was that 100% wheat you say you liked best? Did it still work?

I've done the no-knead kind before and it is good, but a little dense/flat.

I'm interested to try the water in the oven.

paynejandj said...

Lindsay I have only done 50/50 (well maybe slightly more wheat that half actually). I don't think I would do anymore than that. We have learned that your really do have to let it cool before you cut into the bread because otherwise it does taste doughy and dense. It is not like loaf bread at all (of course) so you just break off, or cut, smaller pieces to eat with your meal. Having the water in the pan to steam while baking gives it the crusty outside which is why you have to let it sit and cool so the inside can sort of finish baking but it will still stay soft. It also makes hard to over bake. Someone let me know what you think!

A Bunch of Paynes said...

I tried it and I LOVED it! I did 1 1/2 cups wheat flour and couldn't even taste it, really. It got ready just in time for dinner, though, so I didn't give it time to cool and it was a little dense. Next time I'll have to give it time to cool. But it was SO good and I want to tell the whole world about it. YUM!

Princess Muhmah and The Clan: said...

I think we should schedule a night for you to just bring a couple fresh loaves of it, and I'll have Mark BBQ for dinner!

Linda said...

I am just remembering Shara having some kind of little stick on earrings.

Linda said...

oh, uhOH, sticker earring comment on artisan bread post. not cool.

sorry. ( think Gilly Sorry, Spencer says Gilly Sorry to make me laugh these days)