Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day

If you haven’t heard about this book, well… it’s gotten a lot of buzz both in and out of the breadmaking world. (I never imagined there would be a day that I said “breadmaking world”. You gotta love the way the internet can connect people with a specific hobby all around the world.)

I checked out a copy of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day from my local library. After reading through it and trying the base recipe a couple times, I can’t wait to try other recipes in the book, try adapting the base recipe to meet my own needs and generally incorporate this into my bread baking repertoire. It’s that awesome.

Boule made from the basic dough recipe:

Pizza made using the basic dough recipe:

Even though the book tells you to sprinkle the dough in your bucket with flour, I found that made hard chunks of dough in my bucket. So instead I threw some flour on the countertop, reached in the dough bucket with a wet hand and dropped the hunk of dough into my flour and tossed it around to coat it for shaping. That seemed to work better for me.

The authors are maintaining a website complete with a blog where they post updates on uses for the dough/method and answer questions. So far, I’m completely enamored of this book. Now I need to go buy the book so I don’t incur massive late fees from my library.