No Knead Bread Recipe
No Knead Bread Recipe
This is an old family recipe that is truly excellent and easy. I make it at work on my breaks. I throw the ingredients together when I first come in at 8 (takes 15 minutes). Let it rise until my 10:00 break where I dump the dough onto a floured wax sheet and pull off sections, roll them into balls and put them on ungreased baking sheet (takes about 15 minutes). Let rise until about 20 minutes before lunch. I put it in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes and have a great side for lunch that my coworkers love. Here's the bread recipe:
Ingredients:
1/4 cup water
1 package fast rising yeast
1 cup milk
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
2 well beaten eggs
3 1/2 cups flour
1 towel large enough to cover the large plastic bowl you'll be using
Take the water and warm it in the microwave. You want it body temperature warm. You can also take warm water from the tap if your tap water tastes ok. Place water in small bowl and add yeast. Stir yeast a little and let sit to dissolve. Warm milk in microwave until it is body temperature warm (you don't want hot or cold milk because it will shock the yeast and your dough won't rise). Melt butter. Combine milk, butter, sugar and salt in a large plastic mixing bowl (you want your dough to be able to rise to twice it's size without overflowing the bowl, you want a plastic bowl because metal tends to attract cold which will make the dough less likely to rise). Take your yeast mixture and stir it to make sure all the yeast is dissolved. Add it to the plastic bowl and stir into milk mixture. Stir in eggs. Stir in flour until you have a ooey gooey ball of dough with no dry flour showing. Take the towel and soak it under the hot water tap. Squeeze the towel out thoroughly and drape over the bowel. Leave bowl in a warm place until dough doubles in size (takes 1 to 2 hours, I usually preheat the oven to 100 degrees while I am mixing the ingredients. Then I turn the oven off and put the plastic bowl in the oven so the bread can rise in a warm place). Once dough is double in size, spread wax paper on a flat surface (usually takes two sheets taped together and the four corners taped to flat surface). Sprinkle with flour. Remove towel from bowl and sprinkle flour over top of dough. Pour dough onto wax paper (dough is very sticky). Once dough is on wax paper, sprinkle the top with flour so it doesn't stick to your hands. Pat entire surface of dough with flour until there are no sticky places showing. Pull off palm size pieces and roll into balls using flour when necessary to prevent stickiness. Place on ungreased baking sheet about an inch apart. Let rise for at least 1 hour. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes until golden. Remove from oven and serve warm.
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