girlwithanearring

This is a post about my first attempt at bread making. I was shocked by the result. The recipe I clumsily made worked so well that I haven't been tried any other bread recipes so far.  How do you like your bread?  With a thick crust or thin? In Turkey, we have regular soft bread with a thin crust. The traditional rustic bread, however, is baked in stone wood ovens and it has a thick crust, which I like the best. I don't like the standardised regular bakery bread, which to me are tasteless. So as I was going with this recipe quite clumsily, I also attempted to make that rustic bread I love. Almost every bread recipe I've seen has "active yeast" in it. I'm more of a fresh yeast girl so I used fresh yeast. To achieve the thick crust, I kneaded a very soft dough for the first fermentation process. After the dough rested and fermented for about an hour, I sprinkled lots of flour on the counter and kneaded the dough for about a 1 minute to form mor...