

See notes below about other cookware you can use. Once it’s risen, place your Dutch oven into a 450 degree F oven to preheat. You want it to rise and “bubble” to the surface. Just cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and let it sit anywhere between 8-24 hours at room temperature. Pour in warm water and gently stir until you’ve created a messy, shaggy dough that looks something like this (above). Make sure to use fresh, non-expired ingredients. In a large bowl, stir together your flour, salt and yeast. I can envision mixing in lots of fun flavorings… rosemary, lemon zest, Parmesan, garlic and cranberries just to name a few ideas! I’ve already made a few of these fabulous loaves and will make many more around the holidays, too. If, like me, you’re standing there slack jawed when it’s done, you know you got it right! All of your patience totally pays off when this lovely loaf comes out of your oven, though. The dough only takes 5 minutes to come together, but it does take some time to rise. These are just all the answers I found when I had some of the same questions!
ARTISAN BREAD RECIPES WITH YEAST BY WEIGHT FULL
You can click “Read More” to scroll through the picture tutorial, full recipe, and my notes. You probably already have lots of questions about how it’s baked, what kind of cookware you can use besides a Dutch oven, and how long you should let yours rise. Look at those scrumptious slices! They’re just begging to be slathered with goat cheese and honey, or topped with tomatoes, basil and a drizzle of good olive oil.

I’ve used both active dry yeast and highly active dry yeast with great results! Just make sure your flour is fresh and yeast isn’t expired. Sounds like a lifetime, I know, but waiting is the only difficult part of this recipe. The beautiful, crusty and fluffy bread that results from just four ingredients will knock your socks off! All it takes is flour, salt, yeast and water, all mixed up in a bowl and set to rest for 8-24 hours. I have something amazing to share with you today! I mean, you’ve seen artisan bread before but you’ve probably never seen it as easily made as this! I’d say this is one part recipe, one part magic trick… it’s just incredible. Sorry.One of my most reader-tested and approved recipes! This crusty, fluffy artisan bread needs only 4 ingredients and 5 minutes to come together… you won’t believe how easy and delicious it is!

I don't have a copy of Hamelman's book handy, so I can't figure out what his 3.5% was supposed to be (presumably something sensible). So you'll probably need two scales, a big one and a small one.) (Scales with this fine a resolution almost always have a "max capacity" that's too small for bread. Ever since then I've used exclusively bakers percentages and weighed everything it makes scaling a recipe up or down (even by "funny" fractions such as 4/5 to reduce loaf size slightly) much simpler than it used to be. I found I could measure the "little" ingredients like yeast and salt on an inexpensive "pocket digital scale" (a "digital spoon" works well too) with a resolution of a tenth of a gram. So your 1.1% seems quite reasonable, and 3.5% seems like some kind of misunderstanding. Yes yeast values as bakers percentages between 0.5% and 2% (generally around 1%-1.4%) are typical of non-sourdough doughs baked the same day (in some cases with overnight development, the amount of yeast is much smaller:-). all the other percentages came out fine BTW. so I think the weight values are all correct and agree with what the recipe calls for. I weight 1-1/4 tablespoons of instant dry yeast on my gram scale and it came to about 10 grams. Is yeast treated differently for some reason? He mentions the 3.5% value in the text alongside the recipe as well. I didn't check any other recipes, but visually noted that the same situation occurs with the oatmeal bread recipe without cinnamon and raisins.Īm I doing something wrong in my calculation of the baker's percentage for the yeast? Or is this something for the book's errata. right? Hamelman lists the yeast as being 3.5% in the Baker's % column. The yeast weight is 10 grams (0.37 ounces). In that recipe, the total wheat weight for his 'Home' category is 907 grams (2 lbs) and includes the high-gluten flour and whole-wheat flour. But tonight, I was scaling the Oatmeal Bread with Cinnamon and Raisins recipe (p236) and for the first time, used a spreadsheet and baker's percentages on all items. For those, I would just use the volume (tablespoons, teaspoons) measurement and call it good. In Hamelman's book, Bread., I've always weighed all ingredients except for yeast and salt.
