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Tuscan Bread

Traditional home-made bread that turns out a crispy tasty crust with a delicate soft interior.

 

Yield

12 servings

Prep

20 min

Cook

50 min

Ready

4 hrs
Low Fat, Fat-Free, Low in Saturated Fat, Low Cholesterol, Cholesterol-Free, Trans-fat Free, Sugar-Free, Sodium-Free, Low Sodium

Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
1 ounce yeast, active dry
fresh
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1 ¼ cups water
warm
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2 ¼ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
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¼ cup whole-wheat flour
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Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
28.9 ml/g yeast, active dry
fresh
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296 ml water
warm
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532 ml unbleached all-purpose flour
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59 ml whole-wheat flour
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Directions

In a large bowl, dissolve the yeast in the water.

Mix the 2 flours and stir them in to make a soft dough.

Knead 10 minutes by hand, or 4 minutes in a heavy duty mixer with a dough hook.

Oil a clean bowl and set the dough in it, cover tightly with plastic wrap and let rise until doubled in bulk.

(In the traditional warm place, this will take about 2 hours.

However, a cooler temperature will do as long as the dough has enough time to rise, including overnight in the refrigerator.)

If the dough is ready sooner than it is needed, punch it down and refrigerate it or let it rise slowly again at room temperature until ready to use.

Rub 2 to 3 tablespoons flour into a lintless dish towel and set the towel on a baking sheet.

When the dough has completed its rising, punch it down, turn it out onto a floured work surface, and flatten it into an oblong about 8 inches wide, 10 inches long, and ¼ inch thick.

It will still be very soft, but try to use a minimum of additional flour in handling it.

Roll the dough tight, jelly-roll fashion, into a cylindrical shape.

Flatten this to about 1-inch thick and roll it again.

(This activates the web of gluten that will keep the loaf from flattening out in the oven.)

FOR A ROUND LOAF, tuck both ends of the cylinder under to meet in the center, pinching to seal them.

Roll the dough around the work surface under your hands, to shape it into a smooth ball about 5 inches in diameter.

FOR AN OBLONG LOAF, roll the dough under your hands into a fat cigar shape, extending it to about 10 inches in length.

Set the loaf on the floured towel and fold the ends of the towel loosely around it.

Put the covered loaf, on its baking sheet, in a warm place to rise for 1 hour.

Preheat an oven lined with baking tiles to 400℉ (200℃).

Have a water-filled sprayer handy.

Slide your hand under the towel, pick up the loaf, and gently deposit it upside down on the tiles.

Spray water into the oven before closing the door, and spray twice more at 2-minute intervals.

Bake for 50 minutes or until golden brown.

The bread should have a hollow sound when you knock on its bottom.



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Comments


Holly

All I got when I made this was a huge mess. The dough never made it past the "too sticky to even touch" phase. Seems like there wasn't enough flour. It just wound up on my dough hook and never turned into a ball of dough. Waste of time, $ & supplies.

sean   

Sounds like you needed to add some extra flour. The ratios of flour to water will vary depending on your location, altitude, humidity levels, time of year, etc. If it's too sticky, knead in some more flour a few tablespoons at a time.

The very soft Artisan dough that this recipe produces is unlikely to turn into a ball of dough using a completely hands-off approach with a mixer.

Did a bit of research into dough climbing up the hook and according to the KitchenAid manual, dough climbs up the hook when it is too wet.

KitchenAid recommends adding a bit more flour if this happens.

anonymous United States

Never baked before. Tried this recipe once and it was fantastic. The loaf lasted about 30 minutes. Tried it the next day and doubled the batch; total failure. It seemed to rise properly but the consistency after the first rising was so liquidity that I could not work the dough. I did not double the kneading time. Should I?

 

 

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 53g (1.9 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 1003% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 0g 1%
Saturated Fat 0g 0%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 3mg 0%
Total Carbohydrate 7g 7%
Dietary Fiber 1g 6%
Sugars g
Protein 7g
Vitamin A 0% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 1% Iron 9%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
 

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