Receta Ancient Roman Bread
Ingredientes
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Direcciones
- Put the tepid water in your electric mixer bowl and dissolve the yeast.
- Use a paper lunch sack for weighing out the flour. Put the whole-wheat and rye flour in the bag first, and then make up the weight with the white flour.
- Put 4 cups from the bag into the mixer and whip it for 10 min.
- Add in the salted water. If you have a KitchenAid, allow the dough hook to do the rest of the work. Otherwise, add in remaining flour by hand. Knead till the dough is smooth and elastic.
- Put the dough on a plastic counter and cover with an inverted steel bowl. Allow it to rise once, punch it down, and allow it to rise a second time.
- Punch down and form into 2 or possibly 3 loaaves. I never use bread pans for this, as they will ruin the crust.
- Place the loaves on baking sheets which have been dusted with cornmeal and allow the loaves to rise till double in bulk.
- Bake in a 450 degree oven about 25 min, or possibly till the crust is golden brown and the loaf light to the touch. It should make a hollow sound when you thump your finger on the bottom of the loaf.
- Serving Ideas : Makes 2 or possibly 3 loaves.
- NOTES : See Italian Breadsticks and Crustulum (Bruschetta) for other ways to use this bread recipe.