Artisan Master Recipe

Total Time: 3 hrs Preparation Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 1/2 tablespoons salt
• 1 1/2 tablespoons yeast
• 3 cups lukewarm water
• 6 1/2 unbleached flour
• flour, for dusting

Recipe

• 1 in a bowl or container, stir salt and yeast into water until dissolved. stir in flour until uniformly moist.
• 2 let dough rise loosely covered, until it collapses, (about 2 hours). rrfrigerate at least 3 hours, or preferably overnight (this allows the dough to develop flavor).
• 3 remove from refrigerator. sprinkle dough with flour. cut off a grapefruit-size piece about 1 lb. gently stretch the sides of the dough around to the bottom, to form a ball that's smooth on top. place a sheet of floured parchment paper onto a pizza pan or upside-down cookie sheet. sprinkle dough with flour and rest on top of parchment until almost doubled in size (up to about an hour).
• 4 prepare the oven, place a baking stone on middle rack, and an empty broiler pan on bottom rack (if you don't have a stone, double a cookie sheet and place it in the oven) turn oven on to 450°f
• 5 when oven reaches temperature, dust the loaf and use a knife to score a cross or lines across the top, abupt 1/4-inch deep. slide the loaf, still on the parchmnt directly onto the baking stone. the parchemnt paper will slip right off after baking.
• 6 pour 1 cup of hot water into broiling pan beneath . bake 20 minutes or until a deep brown. cool completely on a rack before cutting.