The aroma of freshly-baked bread has more than just the power to make your mouth water. According to a new study, it can also make you a kinder person. With all of us cooped up self-quarantining bake up some of these loaves for a kinder home… after all, who can be angry when the house smells like a French bakery?
INGREDIENTS
2 cups of bread flour (regular flour will work too)
1 cup fine corn meal
1 teaspoon salt
½ a package of yeast (1 package will work for about 5 cups of flour)
2-3 tbsp of olive oil and about a cup of warm bleach free water ,give or take,
METHOD
Mix all this together well till is actually cleaning the bowl, dough shouldn’t be too sticky form into a ball, and knead for about 2-3 minutes.
oil bowl and cover with a humid towel and let rest for about 2 hours in a warm area till double
After it has double do not knead again just shape into a ball or loafs
Brush with olive oil and sprinkle a little coarse salt on top
Let rest for about 30-40 minutes and baked in a very hot oven or your BBQ for about 20 minutes.
If you have a food processor/stand mixer then just add everything to the bowl a little water first then the oil then the water till starts to clean the bowl and then just let it knead for a few seconds.
Artisan bread requires no kneading, just mixed everything and let it rest till double
Dumped the dough into a mold or well oil cast iron Dutch oven with a piece of foil/parchment paper on the bottom
Let rest like before and baked in a very hot oven.
Also unglazed quarry tiles or oven tiles will give you a beautiful crusty loaf once they get hot enough just like the old wood ovens, a charcoal BBQ works great for this.
PS.the internal temperature of the bread should be about 180* when fully baked. And the house should smell like Heaven.