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Almost No-Knead Bread Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
3 c. (15 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour, plus extra for work surface.
1/4 tsp instant yeast
1-1/2 tsp table salt
3/4 c. plus 2 tbsp (7 ounces) water at room temperature
1/4 c. plus 2 tbsp (3 ounces) mild-flavoured lager
1 tbsp white vinegar

Directions:
Directions:
1. Whisk flour, yeast and salt in large bowl.
2. Add water, beer and vinegar.
3. Using rubber spatula, fold mixture, scraping up dry flour from bottom of bowl until shaggy ball forms.
4. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for 8 to 18 hours.
5. At end of 8 to 18 hours, lay 18- x 12-inch sheet of parchment paper inside 10-inch skillet and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
6. Transfer dough to lightly floured work surface and knead 10 to 15 times.
7. Shape dough into ball by pulling edges into middle.
8. Transfer dough, seam-side down, to parchment-liked skillet and spray surface of dough with nonstick cooking spray.
9. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rise at room temperature until dough has doubled in size and does not readily spring back when poked with finger, about 2 hours.
10. About 30 minutes before baking, adjust oven rack to lowest position, place 6- to 8-quart heavy bottomed Dutch oven (with lid) on rack, and heat oven to 500 F.
11. Lightly flour top of dough and, using sharp knife, make one 6-inch-long, 1/2-inch-deep slit along top of dough. Carefully remove now-hot Dutch oven pot from oven and remove lid.
12. Pick up dough by lifting parchment overhang and lower into pot (let any excess parchment hang over pot edge).
13. Cover pot and place in oven.
14. Reduce oven temperature to 425.
15. Bake covered for 30 minutes.
16. Remove lid and continue to bake until loaf is deep brown and instant-read thermometer inserted into centre registers 210 F (about 20 to 30 minutes)
17. Carefully remove bread from pot and transfer to wire rack to cool to room temperature (about 2 hours)

Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
1 round loaf
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
9 - 19 hours
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
An enamelled cast-iron Dutch oven with a tight-fitting lid yields best results but also works with a cast-iron Dutch oven or heavy stock pot.

Best consumed same day but can be wrapped in aluminum foil and stored in cool, dry place for up to 2 days.

Use a mild flavoured lager such as Budweiser (non-alcoholic works too). Lager brings the breadier yeast and sulfur flavour forward due to 'bottom fermentation'

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