Unsalted Bread with Unsalted Butter and Salt
- 2 cups bread flour, plus more for sprinkling
- 1/2 cup rye flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 teaspoon instant yeast
- 1 three-finger pinch of fine traditional salt (optional)
- 1/4 pound good, fresh unsalted butter, preferably Irish or locally made, slightly softened
- Small pile of sel gris, preferably a mineral French sel gris such as sel gris de lIle de Noirmoutier
- Combine the flours, yeast, and salt in a large bowl.
- Add 1 5/8 cups of water and stir until blended; the dough will be shaggy and sticky.
- Cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and let rest for 12 to 18 hours at room temperature.
- It is ready when its surface is dotted with bubbles.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured board, flour the top, and fold the dough over itself once or twice.
- Cover with plastic and let rest for 15 minutes.
- Using just enough flour to keep the dough from sticking to your hands, quickly shape the dough into a ball.
- Place a flat-weave (not terry) kitchen towel on a sheet pan and coat the towel with flour.
- Put the dough, seam side down, on the towel.
- Sprinkle generously with more flour and cover with another towel.
- Let rise for 2 hours, until the dough does not readily spring back when poked with a finger.
- At least 45 minutes before the dough is done rising, put a 6- to 8-quart covered Dutch oven (plain or enameled cast iron) in the oven and preheat the oven to 450F.
- When the dough has risen, remove the top towel.
- Slide your hand under the bottom towel and gently flip the dough into the hot Dutch oven, seam side up.
- Shake the Dutch oven to position the dough in the center.
- Cover and bake for 35 minutes.
- Uncover and bake for about 10 minutes more, until the top is very crusty.
- Let cool on a rack.
- To serve, cut the bread into thick slices and serve with the butter and a small pile of sel gris.
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/unsalted-bread-with-unsalted-butter-and-salt-382434 (may not work)