- prep: 0 hr
- cook: 3 hr 45 min
- total: 3 hr 45 min
Summary
We thought we’d landed upon the simplest yeast bread recipe in 2007, when Mark Bittman wrote about the no-knead approach of Jim Lahey, owner of Sullivan Street Bakery. It quickly became (and remains) one of our most popular recipes because it made bakery-quality bread a real possibility for home cooks. But then we heard about Jeff Hertzberg, a physician from Minneapolis, who devised a streamlined technique for a crusty loaf of bread. Mix flour, salt, yeast and water. Let it sit a bit, refrigerate it, take some out and let it rise, then bake it. The crusty, full-flavored loaf that results may be the world’s easiest yeast bread. Featured in: Soon The Bread Will Be Making Itself.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ tablespoons yeast
- 1 ½ tablespoons kosher salt
- 6 ½ cups unbleached, all-purpose flour, more for dusting dough
- Cornmeal
Instructions
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Nutrition

- Servings Per Recipe: 4
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 754 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 2 g 3.33%
- Saturated Fat: 0 g 1.53%
- Trans Fat: 0 g %
- Cholesterol: 0 mg 0%
- Sodium: 2176 mg 90.67%
- Calcium: 34 mg 3.37%
- Potassium: 279 mg 7.96%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 10 mg 53.5%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 157 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 7 g 26.07%
- Sugar: 1 g
- Protein: 23 g
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 1 g
- Vitamin A 0%
- Vitamin C 0.45%
- Vitamin D 0%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
- Exchange - Fat0
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs0
- Exchange - Starch10
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat0
- Exchange - Alcohol0
- MyPlate - Grain Total13 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total0 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total0 oz-eq