Knead Free Bread

Stuff you don't really knead. “ As seen Jim Lahey's "No Knead Bread" is intriguing for it's simplicity.  Add 3 cups AP flour, tsp salt , 1/4 tsp. yeast and a cup and ½ water.  Stir it up with your hand and let it perk on the counter for 12-hrs or more.  Dump it on floured counter, fold it into itself and let rest for two hours.  Plop it into a covered pot and bake for 30 min, and another 15 minutes with the lid off.  The video above sorts all this out, including recommending bread flour.   P.S.-- If you're going to do your own in-home instructional video, about anything, this is a good model.  As stated earlier, in my enthusiasm to create a larder for when we have to go to blankets, I bought 100 pounds of AP flour from Wal-Mart.  100 pounds.  Now that I've got back into bread making again, I know that bread flour, with its increased level of gluten, is what I need.  Giant is currently selling a 3# bag Pillsbury Bread flour (King Arthur sets the standard) for $5.29!  No problem.  I bought Vital Wheat Gluten, (roll-over) which, when added to all purpose flour (1 TBSP per cup), makes bread flour.    TIP-If you add 1 cup to 1 cup of flour,  you can fill dents in your car with it. I substituted one cup rye in the above recipe and while I haven't cut into it yet (it's for Reuben sandwiches, and now that it's Lent we have to wait until tomorrow) but it has a good knock. By the by, for those off you who look at me as being infallible in all things not pertaining to who will win elections, this confession.  From the before times I remembered that trick, but added  cornstarch instead of VWG.  That makes cake flour, and a very poor base for bread.   ”