No knead bread of my experience requires following the recipe accurately: glad you got such good results.
One of the things I missed intensely about giving up wheat was baking bread; I've gotten over that longing. I picked up the seekit hidden knowledge for baked goods underfoot in my mother's and aunt's kitchens and have passed some of it on to my daughter.
Baking without gluten is currently in the realm of experimental science for me (ask catbear about this weekend's delicious cookies). It's a differently shaped kind of satisfaction, but it's squishy enough to fill the void bread left.
I've been doing the New York Times no-knead bread for about a year and a half. It took me a good year to consistently produce a boule that's closer to a sphere than a flat round. Everybody swears by the original New York Times method, but I found that it tells you to use way, way too much water. Anyway, I've modified it to use 1/3 whole-wheat flour and 2/3 all-purpose flour. (I also add some hard red wheat berries for the crunch.)
It ends up like a French country loaf. Anyway it kicks store-boughten bread in the pants, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've bought an American style sandwich loaf in the past year.
I'm glad you got one of the no-knead recipes to work for you!
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One of the things I missed intensely about giving up wheat was baking bread; I've gotten over that longing. I picked up the seekit hidden knowledge for baked goods underfoot in my mother's and aunt's kitchens and have passed some of it on to my daughter.
Baking without gluten is currently in the realm of experimental science for me (ask catbear about this weekend's delicious cookies). It's a differently shaped kind of satisfaction, but it's squishy enough to fill the void bread left.
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It ends up like a French country loaf. Anyway it kicks store-boughten bread in the pants, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've bought an American style sandwich loaf in the past year.
I'm glad you got one of the no-knead recipes to work for you!
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