No Knead Bread

Mix dry ingredients together in large bowl. Add water. Stir together into a sticky mess. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let sit on counter for 12 – 18 hours (I recommend mixing it up around 6PM on a Friday so it can sit overnight and you can make it on Saturday).

The next morning take a look at it, the surface should have a ton of tiny bubbles. This is good. Flour a work surface and plop the dough on it. Sprinkle flour on top of the dough blob and on your hands to keep them from sticking. Fold dough over on itself a couple of times, cover loosely with plastic wrap (I use the same wrap that was on the bowl) and let it sit for 15 minutes.

Re-flour your hands and form the dough into a ball. Plop ball onto sheet of parchment paper, cover with a clean towel and place in a warm, draft-free spot to rise for 2 more hours. (For ease, I wash the mixing bowl during the 15 minute rest and drop the parchment paper right in it for the second rise. That way the towel doesn’t touch the dough and if the loaf starts to spread it stays ball shaped). The dough is ready when it is almost doubled in size.

At least a half-hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 450 degrees F. Put a 6- to 8-quart heavy covered pot (such as my brand new enamel cast iron Kirkland Signature pot from Costco which is awesome and 6 times less money than a Le Creuset – hence my ability to own one) in the oven as it heats. When dough is ready, carefully remove pot from oven. Pick up the parchment paper, drop it and the dough into the HOT pot (seriously, it’s hot, don’t touch it with your bare hands).

Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes (2o minutes for me in Calgary), until loaf is deep brown. Pick up the parchment paper by the corners, remove loaf from pot and cool on a rack.