Adventures in Bread - Part 2

 

From the time I got up today I was looking forward to fresh from the oven bread. So I was excited when it was time to get back to the dough.

 

 

 

After sitting for 18 hours the dough had risen significantly and had the bubbles the recipe told me to expect.

 

 

 

Then working on a floured surface, the dough is folded twice and covered for 15 min.

 

 

The next step was to form the dough into a ball and place it on a cornmeal dusted towel to rise for 2 hours.

 

 

1 1/2 hours into this rising time the oven and cast iron dutch oven get preheated to 500 degrees.

The dough has roughly doubled in size during this 2 hour rise time.

 

 

And into the preheated pot it goes!

 

 

Now for the wait for it to bake...

 

 

The recipe called for baking it for 30 min then removing the lid and baking an additional 15-30 minto brown the crust, but when I took off the lid the crust looked perfect and I really felt if it was in any longer it would have been over done.

 

 

The crust is perfect and crisp and the inside is moist and chewy. :)

 

 

Yum!!!

 

 

Overall this bread turned out great, the only disadvantage to it was all the waiting time. I am hoping to try the other recipe this week to see how they compare.  Maybe tomorrow :)