Amazing country loaf bread
Author: Handmade health
Recipe type: Country loaf bread
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Serves: 2 large loaves
- starter:
- 21/2 cups wholewheat flour
- 2 cups warm water
- ¼ tsp yeast
- 1 TBLS sugar
- 71/2 cups wholewheat flour
- 71/2 cups white flour
- 5 TBLS kosher rock salt
- 4 additional cups warm water as needed
- To make starter, mix 21/2 cups flour and 2 cups proofed yeast.
- Mix well with your hands until very wet and cover loosely overnight
- Next morning , measure out 15 cups of flour
- Add 51/2 cups of warm water to starter and break up the mix
- Add liquid starter to flour with an additional 4 cups of warm water
- Mix dough well with your hands until dough is well mixed and wet
- Leave mix for 30 minutes to rest
- Add 5 TBLS kosher salt to ¼ cup of warm water to dry and dissolve
- Add salt to dough and mix in thoroughly with your hands
- Leave dough loosely covered for 4-5 hours
- Once doubled in size, dump out dough onto floured surface and cut in half
- Turn each dough loaf over itself 4 times and place in rice flour tea toweled bowls
- Let loaves rise an additional 4 hours until doubled in sized
- Put large 12 quart creuset with lid in the oven and preheat oven to 475 degrees
- Remove lid and dump loaf into hot pot
- Slash loaf and return lid
- Bake for 35 minutes until golden brown and sounds hollow when you knock it.
Recipe by Hand Made Health at http://handmadehealth.net/amazing-country-loaf-bread/
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