No Knead Artisan Bread--FAST recipe

This recipe is fantastic, super easy and cheap.  With only a few ingredients and a few minutes, you can have a wonderful bread dough that will keep (though it won't last) for 2 weeks in your fridge.  It makes about 2 small loaves of crusty, chewy, delicious bread.

This recipe is from "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking" by Jeff Hertzberg, Zoe Francois.

Step 1 Step 1- The recipe

3 cups of warm water, about 100 degrees

1 1/2 Tablespoons of active dry or instant yeast (I use instant)

1 1/2 Tablespoons of kosher salt

6 1/2 cups of unbleached, all purpose flour (I use King Arthur Flour, it makes nice dough)

--You can use bread flour if you like, but I find all purpose works well and is more practical as it has more applications than just bread.  

Comments

[snailruby]

It may not have been mentioned in this Instuctable, but this dough makes fantastic pizza. Just stretch it out and add ingredients. The oven temp is the same, at 450. Water for steaming is not necessary.

[suayres]

I just made the whole-grain version of this recipe--got in the new book (by the same authors) "Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes a Day". And it's every bit as easy and delicious as the artisan bread. My hub and I don't eat white bread, so I was thrilled to find the new book, and bought it immediately. LOVE it!

[aeray]

You should probably credit the the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day authors, like I did in my Instructable using the same recipe (after getting their permission as well).

[snailruby]

You are right.. Sorry for the error...

[aeray]

Good on ya for doing the right thing.