Amazing country loaf bread
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Recipe type: Country loaf bread
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Serves: 2 large loaves
 
Ingredients
  • 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
Instructions
  1. To make starter, mix 21/2 cups flour and 2 cups proofed yeast.
  2. Mix well with your hands until very wet and cover loosely overnight
  3. Next morning , measure out 15 cups of flour
  4. Add 51/2 cups of warm water to starter and break up the mix
  5. Add liquid starter to flour with an additional 4 cups of warm water
  6. Mix dough well with your hands until dough is well mixed and wet
  7. Leave mix for 30 minutes to rest
  8. Add 5 TBLS kosher salt to ¼ cup of warm water to dry and dissolve
  9. Add salt to dough and mix in thoroughly with your hands
  10. Leave dough loosely covered for 4-5 hours
  11. Once doubled in size, dump out dough onto floured surface and cut in half
  12. Turn each dough loaf over itself 4 times and place in rice flour tea toweled bowls
  13. Let loaves rise an additional 4 hours until doubled in sized
  14. Put large 12 quart creuset with lid in the oven and preheat oven to 475 degrees
  15. Remove lid and dump loaf into hot pot
  16. Slash loaf and return lid
  17. 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/