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October 9th, 2008

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Afternoon food nation
Whole wheat comes to the no-knead bread phenom:

Fast No-Knead Whole Wheat Bread

Published: October 7, 2008

The Minimalist: No-Knead Bread: Not Making Itself Yet, but a Lot Quicker (October 8, 2008)

2 cups whole wheat flour

1/2 cup whole rye flour

1/2 cup coarse cornmeal

1 teaspoon instant yeast

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

Oil as needed.

1. Combine flours, cornmeal, yeast and salt in a large bowl. Add 1 1/2 cups water and stir until blended; dough will be shaggy. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rest about 4 hours at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees.

2. Oil a standard loaf pan (8 or 9 inches by 4 inches; nonstick works well). Lightly oil your hands and shape dough into a rough rectangle. Put it in pan, pressing it out to the edges. Brush top with a little more oil. Cover with plastic wrap and let rest 1 hour more.

3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake bread about 45 minutes, or until loaf reaches an internal temperature of 210 degrees. Remove bread from pan and cool on a rack.

Yield: 1 loaf.
A bit like TED, for Bread.

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From:	netik
Date:	October 10th, 2008 07:44 am (UTC)

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This will produce bread,but it will be a very dense loaf of low quality.

Time and CO2 from yeast are the only things that produce a proper gluten matrix within the loaf. The problem is compounded by the lack of bread flour, as without some form of white flower, whole wheat will not rise on it's own.

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From:	netik
Date:	October 10th, 2008 07:44 am (UTC)

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flour! not flower! stupid spell check!

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From:	erg
Date:	October 10th, 2008 03:09 pm (UTC)

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Good point.
I might know what you mean about low quality, as I worked for Il Fornaio, but given what passes for low quality at Cala, I think it's a question of what's healthy, rather than pure garbage. If you'd care to expand on that, so I better know which point you're making for sure?

You're right, this won't win best of show. I've been presuming this comes out a bit like
Ciabatta, as a round.

Given the quality of the mixes I'm seeing for bread makers, I'm thinking this is a much healthier option, especially if one sprinkles the top with a whole grain.

My english class has us reading Fast Food Nation, so in looking at what the rest of the nation is apparently eating, I was thinking this might go well with a crock pot stew or soup. Make it, go away for some hours, come back and finish up.

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