Overnight Artisan Bread

 

Overnight Artisan Bread is homemade best overnight artisan bread, perfect for cast iron casserole dish baking, easy to make, soft inside and soooo golden and crunchy outside!

 

This artisan bread recipe is great one to start with if you are not skilled in bread making / baking but ready to start. You just combine four ingredients, simple way, cover with plastic wrap and leave it overnight in a bowl, and this is all you have to do.
Girls at work shared this recipe with everyone since one of them has found the recipe on Internet, made it and it was fabulous.

There is a topic we were confused about for quite a long time, and it is a difference between casserole dish and Dutch oven. Do you have the same problem? If so, here is short explanation:

“The main difference between casserole dish and Dutch oven is their materials and usage. Casseroles are available in a variety of materials like ceramics, glass, cast iron, and aluminium, but Dutch ovens are made from cast iron. However, you can use ceramics or glass casseroles only in ovens, not on stovetops. But you can use Dutch ovens directly on stovetops and in ovens. If the casserole dish is made from cast iron and the recipe can be adapted, then yes, you can use your casserole dish as a Dutch oven.”For more details please go here .

 

The greatest of all is that this Overnight Artisan Bread serves as the base for all your creative endeavors; you may easily create your own version of bread recipe by adding finely chopped olives, garlic, sweet corn, herbs, seeds, or prosciutto. That’s how this rustic overnight bread recipe is great to keep!

Here is short version of “how to”; covered dough with transparent foil in the evening, morning look, once dropped in casserole dish and baked beauty:

 

What is an artisan bread?

Artisan bread is superior in taste, texture and aroma and appearance to its mass-produced counterpart. The dough is made by hands, not machines, and uses only basic ingredients: flour, water, yeast, and salt. No chemical additives. Then you have truly artisan bread!

Ultimately, artisan bread is defined by the skill and time put into its production.

For more look here  .

 

How does sourdough bread differ from ordinary bread?

While regular bread is leavened with packaged yeast, sourdough bread is leavened with Lactobacillus bacteria and wild yeasts. This mixture of bacteria and wild yeast is called a sourdough starter. It’s made by mixing flour and water and letting it sit until microbes move in and ferment it.

 

Before some interesting bread links at 2pots, let me share another information about this bread recipe: it remains fresh for four days; at least we had it that long before it was all gone.

For more breads at 2pots see the links below:

Rye Bread Recipe

Rustic Lard Bread

Cheesy Broccoli Soup in Bread Bowl form Scratch

No Knead One Bowl Oats Cottage Cheese Bread