Grammy's Kitchen · No-Knead Bread · Crusty French Bread

One of 174 no-knead bread recipes we measured

Crusty French Bread

from natashaskitchen.com

82 cooks on natashaskitchen.com rate it 5.0★.

hands-on60m
waitingnone
makes10
each$0.11
kcal225
levelintermediate
Needs:molassesAs an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases

The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 174.

this recipe typical
liquid68%83%
fat0%4%
salt2%2%
yeast1%1%
total sugar1%2%
flour strength2.01.0

Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

414 g1 3/4 cups warm water (90 ̊ to 100 ̊F)
4 g1/2 tsp molasses
290 g2 1/3 cups unbleached bread flour, measured correctly* ((290 grams))
315 g2 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, measured correctly* ((315 grams))
4 g1 1/4 tsp instant yeast (quick rise) ((1/2 packet))
12 g2 tsp salt (I used fine sea salt)
All-purpose Flour and semolina flour for dusting

Method: 6 steps, published by natashaskitchen.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“I don't know if I hit the 'post comment' box- I am going to make this bread tomorrow using my 5.5 qt dutch oven. I have referenced the instructions for baking in the dutch oven from the 5 seed bread as you reference above. Using the dutch oven, the temperatu” — a cook, 5★
“Just made this tonight, I only had 1 1/3 cups of bread flour so I made up the difference with all purpose flour. Still came out great. It will be even better when I use the correct ratio of flours. Thanks for this recipe” — a cook, 5★
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