Friday, March 16, 2012

Easy Italian Homeground Flour bread!

I DID IT!!! After much experimentation I did it. I've been trying to recreate the No Knead Bread recipe using all fresh ground flour for a year and finally did it. What is the trick? Time.

The original recipe is
3 cups bread flour
1/4 tsp yeast
1 1/4 tsp salt
1 5/8 cups warm water
Mix, let sit 12-18 hours and bake as in my other post.

I did two things Wednesday and both worked!
Loaf 1
Same recipe, but with 2 cups ground soft white wheat flour and one hard red wheat.
I set aside covered at 10 am Wednesday and baked it at 2 pm Thursday so set aside for 28 hours before rising etc. Was fantastic. The Sicilian said it had a strong wheat taste but truly I loved it, and didn't smell yeasty.

Loaf 2
Many fresh flour recipes have you treat the wheat with apple cider vinegar, so...
3 cups hard red wheat flour
1 5/8 cups warm water
2 tbsp ACV
Let sit 24 hours covered.
Pour off liquid (may be underneath but it's there)
Add 1/2 tsp yeast, 1 1/4 tsp salt and 1/3 cup flour and mix in. Set aside 12 hours covered or till you see it stringing when tip the bowl. I set it 18.
Then bake like the other post. I had to add more flour when I poured it out though. No biggie. Everyone voted it the winner.

Below are the three of the four recipes we tried. And ate. Brown holey is loaf 2. Brown denser is my quick wheat sandwich bread. Light holey is the no knead with white flour just for comparison. Oh and can't forget the golden homemade raw butter that is just unbelievable on it. Had some fresh ricotta from this morning on it too. Carb overload for sure but WOW!

Happy no kneading!!

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