#overnight bread

Making bread can seem like a fussy time waster for trust fund hipsters, but we have found an incredibly simple recipe from dontwastethecrumbs.com that only requires a bit of planning and almost no hands on effort. It’s cheap, and perfect for making over the weekend when you can leave it and forget about it and go back to your entertainment of choice.

Essentials:

Cast iron Dutch oven

Mixing bowl

Ingredients:

3 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp salt

1 tsp active dry yeast

1 ½ cups room temperature water

Instructions:

Combine flour, salt, and yeast in appropriately sized mixing bowl. Stir.

Add water. Mix well. Dough will be hard to stir and shaggy. This is normal. Don’t worry, you didn’t screw it up.

Cover with a towel and let rise overnight at room temperature, 8 - 18 hours. If you’re in a comparative hurry, put the bowl over something warm, like a stereo, an oven, or a heating vent. Just make sure it’s only warm, about body temperature at the maximum, and check on your dough so it doesn’t turn into the furry slime monsters the Third Doctor was so fond of fighting. If your yeast is healthy the dough should bubble and rise.

It’s been at least 8 hours (give or take). You’re starving. Flour hands and workspace, form dough into a vague spherical lump. Don’t be afraid to use a flamboyant amount of flour; this will save your fingernails and counters from being encrusted in rocklike dried dough. Do not knead. Let rest another hour (yes I know, it’s terribly unfair. Snack on a granola bar if you’re too hangry to not contemplate murder).

After dough has rested 30 minutes, preheat oven to 450 and put the dutch oven in the oven - ovenception - minus lid. Leave in until bread has rested 30 more minutes.

Remove pot from the oven, flour it lightly, set dough in pot. Put lid on pot. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes.

Remove lid, bake for another 15 minutes, or until top is golden brown.

Remove from oven. Allow to cool for thirty minutes in a spot where air flow can breeze past the top and the bottom of loaf. A wire rack is nice, or you might be able to use a cold burner, or a wide mouth cup. Or, if your talent is telekinesis, congratulations, you are the future of bread making.

Check out my  Dutch oven no-knead overnight bread recipe!

For those in a rush, I’m re-posting the basic recipe here on my tumblr. But if you want the full picture-by-picture instructions, nutritional information, and secrets to success you can go to my website.

Here’s what you’ll need…

Ingredients

1 Teaspoon Dry Active Yeast

2 Teaspoons Table Salt

3 Cups All-Purpose Flour

1 1/2 Cups Lukewarm Water

You’ll also want a little flour to keep the bread from sticking to things.

Additional Equipment

Small and Large Mixing Bowls

Wooden Mixing Spoon

Measuring Cups and Spoons

Dutch Oven

Bread Lame

Cooling Rack

Instructions

Stir yeast, salt, and flour together in a large bowl.

Add water and stir until loose shaggy dough forms. 

Cover and let rise overnight, about 8 to 18 hours. 

Turn dough out onto a floured surface and gently shape into a round.

Let dough rest for 1 hour. 

After 30 minutes of the dough resting, preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Place the Dutch oven without its lid in the oven and allow it to preheat for 30 minutes.

Once the dough has rested and the Dutch oven preheated, place the dough in the Dutch oven. 

Score the top of the dough. 

Cover with the lid and bake for 30 minutes. 

Remove lid and bake for 15 minutes.

Turn out onto a cooling rack and allow to cool completely before serving. 

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