Making Bread By Hand - Swiss Onion Bread | Cosmopolitan Cornbread

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil reduces saturated fat while adding flavor.

cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: processed cheese

Nutritional yeast offers a cheesy flavor without dairy.

Prepare 1 cup of warm water at about 120 degrees.

Add 2.5 teaspoons of instant yeast and 0.5 teaspoon of sugar to the warm water, stir, and let it rest for about 10 minutes until it blooms.

In a mixing bowl, combine 6 cups of bread flour, 2 tablespoons of fine sea salt, and 1 teaspoon of dry mustard, stirring to mix well.

Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in the yeast mixture.

Using clean hands, swirl the liquid in the well and gradually incorporate flour from the sides until a slurry forms, similar to pancake batter.

Cover the slurry with a sprinkle of flour to prevent a skin from forming, and let it rest for about 20 minutes.

After 20 minutes, prepare an additional cup of warm filtered water and pour it into the dough, stirring with your hand to incorporate flour from the sides until a shaggy dough forms.

Transfer the shaggy dough onto a floured surface and begin kneading it for about 8-10 minutes until it becomes a smooth dough, adding flour as needed to prevent stickiness.

Cooking Techniques

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