Homemade Peasant Bread
A delicious homemade peasant bread from scratch. Fit for a king and so easy! You will use this recipe for many years to come.
3 cups all purpose flour
1-3/4 tsp. salt (any kind)
1/2 tsp. yeast
1-1/2 cups tepid (filtered or bottled) water..do NOT use tap water.
Mix 1st 3 ingredients in a bowl thoroughly. Add the water and mix until just combined. No longer or bread will be tough & over worked. Cover and let sit at least 12 hours but up to 24 hours on your counter top.
Preheat oven to 450 or 500 degrees (I have baked at both temperatures you decide which temp to use. Place a dutch oven or any vessel you want to use in the oven that can withstand high heat and let it stay in the oven 30 minutes after your oven reaches temp.
Flour your counter or board and remove the sticky dough from the bowl onto the flour. Also flour the top of the dough lightly (just enough to handle it) Fold the dough over on itself 4 or 5 times, stretching the dough as you fold, then form into a ball and cover to rest 10 minutes.
Remove the cooking vessel from the oven and remove the lid. Drop your formed dough into the vessel and put the lid back on. Place in the oven for 30 minutes with the lid on. Remove the lid and let the loaf continue to bake for 10 to 20 minutes...at least 10.
Carefully remove the baked loaf to a rack to cool. Turn the loaf on it's side to cut with a serrated knife and enjoy...this is a wonderful tasting bread you'll use for many years to come!
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Homemade crusty loaf, with or without a dutch oven
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***RECIPE***
2 cups (474mL) water, divided in two
2 teaspoons (10g) salt (based on the Morton Kosher I use)
1/8 teaspoon dry yeast (two small pinches)
bread flour (you'll need maybe 5-6 cups, 500-600g, but this recipe is not based on firm quantities)
a little whole wheat flour, if you want (I like to replace maybe a tenth of the white bread flour with whole wheat — I just eyeball it)
The night before you want to bake, mix a poolish by combining half of the water (1 cup, 237mL) with the yeast and enough flour to get a thick batter / pudding consistency. I think a wooden spoon is the best utensil to use for this, but whatever spoon you use, use something rigid. You can just leave the spoon in the poolish overnight. Cover the poolish and let it ferment 8-24 hours.
About four hours before you want to bake, uncover the poolish and mix in the remaining cup (237mL) of water, salt, and as much flour as you can stir in with a spoon (no hand kneading). Again, you can leave the spoon in there. Cover and let rise/hydrate for about an hour.
Check it again and see if you can stir in a little more flour now that the previous addition has hydrated. When you're done, you can get rid of the spoon. Cover and let rise/hydrate for another hour.
These next steps I do in the bowl, just to keep the mess contained, FYI. Sprinkle the dough with a little flour to keep it from sticking to you. Grab one side of it and pull it out until just before it's going to tear, then fold it back in on itself. Rotate the dough 90 degrees and repeat until you've done this four total times. Position the dough so that the seems are on the bottom and the smooth surface is on top. Cover and let rest for about 20 minutes.
Do the whole folding and stretching procedure again, rest 20 minutes, and then do it a third time.
The following instructions are for baking this with a dutch oven. If you're using a baking sheet with a heat-safe metal bowl, skip to that part now.
Get a sheet of parchment paper, crumple it up into a ball, un-crumple it and stuff it down into the bottom of your dutch oven. Transfer in the dough, smooth-side up. Cover the dutch oven (but not with the lid). Put the lid in your oven and get it heating to 500ºF/260ºC (some people get better results with slightly lower temperatures, but every oven is different). Let the dough proof for about a half hour while the oven heats up.
When the dough is looking puffy, score the surface — I find a few quick, confident slashes with a serrated knife work ok. Put the dutch oven over a burner on your stove, turn the heat on high, and cove it with the hot lid from the oven. When the side of the dutch oven feel hot (it should just take a couple minutes), transfer the whole situation to your oven and let bake for a half hour undisturbed, so as to not let any steam escape.
Carefully remove the hot lid, reduce the heat to 450ºF/230ºC and let the surface of the bread brown while the interior finishes baking, 10-20 more minutes. You can test the interior with a thermometer — anything in the neighborhood of 200ºF/93ºC is good. Let the bread cool before slicing.
The following instructions are for doing this with a baking sheet and a heat-safe metal bowl.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. After you've done the whole folding thing three times, position the dough on the baking sheet, smooth-side up. Cover it with a heat-safe metal bowl that's big enough to not touch the dough as it rises and/or bakes. Get your oven heating to 500ºF/260ºC (some people get better results with slightly lower temperatures, but every oven is different). Let the dough proof for about a half hour while the oven heats up.
When the dough is looking puffy, score the surface — I find a few quick, confident slashes with a serrated knife work ok. Move the whole pan/bowl rig into the oven and let bake for a half hour undisturbed, so as to not let any steam escape.
Carefully remove the hot hot bowl. If your oven has a convection fan, turn it on. If not, just crank your oven to its highest temperature, if it can go any higher. Let the surface of the bread brown while the interior finishes baking, 10-20 more minutes. You can test the interior with a thermometer — anything in the neighborhood of 200ºF/93ºC is good. Let the bread cool before slicing.