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We like our bread like we like our women, cheap and…just kidding. But Red Icculus’ recipe for cheap and easy bread produces a bread that tastes like a $5 “artisan” loaf from the supermarket. It is so easy, there is no reason to spend money on factory produced loaves when this can be fresh baked while you get ready for work.
His recipe is as simple as add water to a mixture of flour, instant yeast, and salt, then bake for 30 minutes. The result is what looks and tastes like an “artisan” bread.
We decided to see how easy it really is. We followed his recipe exactly, except, we didn’t use a dutch oven and decided to use white flour. Instead, we placed the loaf of dough onto a floured cooking stone. Here is the result we got:
We’ve never baked bread before and yet the result was amazing. We got a crispy crust and a medium dense, moist inside. His recipe is based on a NY Times article that eventually turned into this book, “Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes Per Day.”
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