Another day… another bread-product. Are ya gettin tired of the bread items here lately? Are ya havin withdrawls and missing the sugar stuff? Hmmmm…. well, I’m not! I’m having loads of fun making breads right now. And if you’re one who’s sitting there saying “wow, gorgeous loaf of bread but I could *never* make it” trust me when I say you are sooooooo wrong. This is pretty much fool-proof. It is by far, without a doubt, most definitely, 100% completely and honestly the most simple bread recipe I’ve ever come across… and it produces beautiful results.
If you’re not familiar with Mark Bittman, I encourage you to check him out. He adapted the recipe from Jim Lahey at the Sullivan Street Bakery. There’s only four ingredients… flour, yeast, salt and water… and honestly, the ingredients do all the work. Okay, yeah, I know, my picture only shows three… it’ll be hard, I realize it, but try… try and fight the urge to sue me ;-)
Combine, stir, cover and let it rest for 12-18 hours (mine rested for 21 cuz low-and-behold life keeps happening even when the dough is just, yanno, like kickin’ back, resting). At that point mine looked like this
Turn it out, shape it and let that poor exhausted dough rest a few minutes more
Shape it into a ball, let it rise for 2 more hours and get ready to bake it. I used a 6qt enamel-on-cast-iron dutch oven which was pretty much the perfect size. 
And when it’s all done you’ve got some amazingly tasty bread for pretty much doin no work at all =)
I’ve shown you how easy this is… now your homework assignment is to make your own and leave a comment about the experience. Or leave me a comment about something else… but really, you gotta make this bread especially if you think you can’t make bread. Trust me, you can.
Click HERE for the full recipe for No-Knead Bread.
Have a delicious day!
Holy Cow that looks easy and delicious!
Hmmmm, sounds like something worth trying!!
It’s hard to get tired of reading about bread products when they look so yummy!
I’ve made this bread too. Thanks for the reminder about how good it is. BTW, I’m fasinated with your live blog viewer thingy. That’s why you see Omaha three times =).
Trish, indeed, in Omaha, NE
MMM….get sick of bread? NEVER!!
This looks lovely!
I love bread, and I could never get tired of it!
I have got to try this too – it looks wonderful!
Lovely photos.
Absolutely beautiful photography!
I’m definitely gonna be trying this recipe.
I had the hardest time with this! Not sure if I left it to rise for too long but when I needed to fold it it was so loose it slid through my fingers… :(
I must try again!
Yours looks amazing.
I made this yesterday (well, baked it yesterday, but started the dough the day before). I was literally blown away by the results. I have never been able to bake a decent loaf of bread, so I had given up until I saw this miracle recipe. Although you have to plan ahead to give enough time to get this pulled together- it turned out professional looking- and I don’t have any fancy kitchen stuff, I didn’t even have a dutch oven, so I used a 6 quart pasta pot. It still turned out perfectly. My DH is so impressed and ate 5 slices with real butter melting through the soft lightly chewy crumb. I really liked that the crust gets nice and golden, but not *too* crusty, as in it doesn’t hurt the roof of my mouth to bite down on it. it is still soft the next day, and would make amazing French toast if left to dry out a bit more. Anyway, I wont be spending $5 on a fresh loaf of fancy bread anymore- I much prefer the estimated cost of $1 a loaf to make it myself. :o) Thanks for sharing.
Meredith, I’m so glad it worked out for you. You’re right, it does take a bit of pre-planning but other than that it’s about as simple as bread making get. The only thing that comes close is the Focaccia bread recipe I also posted this month – that’s easy breezy too and gives fantastic results :)
Thanks for stopping by!