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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Disappearing Bread



This bread is so good, and so simple, you will have a hard time keeping it around.  And this is the simplest and quickest bread recipe I have ever encountered.  Seriously, easy.

What you need:

5 Cups HOT water
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup oil
2 Tbsp salt
3 Tbsp yeast
11 1/2 cups bread flour

What you do:

Put your HOT water in a large bowl.  Add sugar, oil, and salt.  Mix for about 30 seconds.  Add 1 1/2 cups bread flour and whisk again for 30 seconds.  Your mixture should be smooth and creamy looking.  Add 1 Tbsp yeast and mix for ten seconds.  Add another Tbsp yeast and mix for ten seconds.  Add another TBSP of yeast and mix for ten seconds, thus totaling 3 TBSP yeast and 30 seconds of mixing. 

Add remaining 10 cups of bread flour and prepare to get messy.  Lightly mix everything together, creating a lumpy sticky lump.  Wash your hands and cover bowl for 20 minutes. 

After it has sat for 20 minutes, oil your counter and dump the mixture out.  Seperate into 4 equal peices.  For each piece, shape into a rectangle "loaf."  Then roll out following the length of the dough.  You just want to stretch it out a bit.  Starting at one end, roll the dough onto itself to create a loaf shape.  Put the loaf into a pan coated with cooking spray.  Repeat with other three lumps of dough.  Place in non preheated oven.  Close the door and turn oven on to 200*.  Let dough rise for 20 minutes.

When 20 minutes are up, without opening oven door, turn up the heat to 325* and cook for another 30-35 minutes.  The bread is done when the top is gorgeous golden.  Leave it in the pan a few minutes before dumping onto cooling rack.  Slice and enjoy.