{"id":15,"date":"2016-10-28T05:51:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T05:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2024-08-14T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T16:57:39","slug":"crusty-bread-in-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5458\" src=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/homemadebread.png\" alt=\"Homemade bread | mrscaseyann\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" \/>After a plethora of\u00a0homebound days\u00a0over\u00a0the last few weeks, my inner baker has started to surface. The rainy forecast\u00a0hasn&#8217;t helped. At this rate, our household will\u00a0need an emergency juice fast before Thanksgiving. Until then, we march on!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have too much experience with the non-sweet breads. I&#8217;ve been coached a few times on Swiss Sunday bread (<em>Zopf<\/em>) and Sourdough. But come to think of it, that was before I had kids. So since I don&#8217;t really have the time\u00a0for fermenting, leavening, or braiding\u00a0these days, this no-knead recipe has been inspiringly easy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Flour, yeast, salt and warm water. That&#8217;s it! Mix, sit, bake, eat. The bread is dense in texture, so served piping hot is ideal; we haven&#8217;t tried it any other way truthfully, between all of us, it&#8217;s gone within a half hour.\u00a0I&#8217;ve never seen Luke happily gobble up so much bread and be so undisturbed by the\u00a0chewy crust as he licks his buttered, sticky fingers. Toddler win is a recipe win!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3178\" src=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_1902.jpg\" alt=\"img_1902\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" \/><strong>Crusty Fall Bread<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3 cups flour<br \/>\n1\/2 teaspoon yeast<br \/>\n2 teaspoons salt<br \/>\n1 1\/2 cups warm water<\/p>\n<p>Mix ingredients together and cover, let sit for 8-24 hours. Preheat oven to 450 Degrees and let rest on a floured surface for 30 minutes. Place in covered baking dish and bake for 30 minutes, then uncover and bake for 10-15 more minutes. Let cool before slicing.<\/p>\n<p>And for fun, here are a\u00a0few I&#8217;m going to test..<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cooking.nytimes.com\/recipes\/11376-no-knead-bread\">NYT No-Knead Bread<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/1112187\/no-knead-seeded-overnight-bread\">Martha Steward Seeded No-Knead Bread<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/ina-garten\/toasted-baguette-recipe2.html\">Ina Garten Toasted Baguette<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>\u201cGood bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.\u201d \u2015 <\/em>James Beard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a plethora of\u00a0homebound days\u00a0over\u00a0the last few weeks, my inner baker has started to surface. The rainy forecast\u00a0hasn&#8217;t helped. At this rate, our household will\u00a0need an emergency juice fast before Thanksgiving. Until then, we march on! I don&#8217;t have too much experience with the non-sweet breads. I&#8217;ve been coached a few times on Swiss Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7820,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/7820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}