Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
Ingredients:
3 Cups lukewarm water
2 Tablespoons yeast
1 ½ Tablespoons kosher salt
6 ½ Cups bread flour
In kitchen-aid mixer put the water, yeast, salt and carefully measured flour. Turn on mixer and mix for 5 minutes. The dough will be very sticky. Remove from the bowl and place in plastic tub and let raise at room temperature for 2 hours. Place in fridge and use as needed.
When ready to use divide off one third; place on a lightly floured counter roll into shape of a baguette or boule. This should take only 5 minutes. Place on pizza peel that had been dusted with corn meal. Let bread raise for 40 minutes. While bread is rising preheat oven to 450’ and as it is preheating place baking stone in the oven so it too is hot.
After the 40 minute rising time carefully slice top of bread and brush with olive oil and top with a bread topping; Next slide the dough off of the pizza peel onto the hot stone which has been in the oven. Place a broiler pan or cookie sheet with sides on bottom shelf of oven and pour in a glass of water, this creates steam while the bread is baking. Bake bread for 30 minutes.
