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Bread, The Miracle Boule
Recipe By :Laura Calder
Serving Size : 12 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Bread Bread-Bakers Mailing List
Hand Made Low Fat
Posted Sandwiches
Side Dish Snacks
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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3 cups all-purpose flour -- plus more as needed, (375g)
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon instant yeast
Cornmeal -- wheat bran or extra flour, as needed
Prep: 10 min
Inactive: 14 hr
Cook: 1 hr
Total:15:10
Yield: 1 boule
Mix the flour, salt and yeast in a bowl. Stir in 1 1/2 cups/375 ml
water to blend. What you'll have is a wet, shaggy, sticky dough, but
not so wet as to be batter. Cover the bowl with a tea towel and let
it rest in a warm place for at least 12 hours, and up to 24 hours.
It's ready for the next step when the surface is dotted with bubbles.
Flour a work surface and dump the dough out onto it. Sprinkle over a
little more flour and fold it once or twice. Cover with the tea towel
and let rest 15 minutes.
Using only enough flour to keep the dough from sticking to your
fingers, shape the dough into a ball. Coat a cotton towel with
cornmeal, wheat bran or flour and lay the dough on it, seam-side
down. Dust with more cornmeal, wheat bran or flour. (You need quite a
lot because you want to be sure the dough doesn't stick to the
towel). Cover and let rise for about 2 hours. When ready, the dough
will be more than double in size.
Half an hour before the dough is ready, preheat the oven to
450F/230C. Put a 2-liter cast-iron pot or Dutch oven (cocotte) inside to heat.
When the dough is ready, remove the pot from the oven and turn the
dough into it, seam-side up. (It will look messy, but this is OK.)
Shake the pot to settle the bread evenly. Cover with the lid and bake
for 30 minutes. Remove the lid and bake until the loaf is nicely
browned, another 15 to 30 minutes. Cool on a rack.
Review:
I love this bread recipe. The only modification I have made is
letting it rise in a bowl fitted with parchment paper. I then simply
lower it into the Dutch oven and it's perfect every time.
Review:
First of all, I admire Laura's cooking and baking prowess so I'm
prejudice to like her recipes. But I make this bread over and over
again and am consistently asked for the recipe. If you follow her
instructions, the bread comes out perfectly each and every
time. Crowd pleaser!
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"https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/laura-calder/the-miracle-boule-2042163";
Yield:
"1 boule"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 114 Calories; trace Fat (2.5%
calories from fat); 3g Protein; 24g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber;
0mg Cholesterol; 223mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1 1/2 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat.
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