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| Step one. Clean your counter! This is important because you will be preparing you food right on the counter. |
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| Here's the stuff you will need. Not much really, simple ingredients, but amazing how great it taste in the end :-) |
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| You need to have a nice large bowl. If you look closely you will see the title on the flour bag that says "Bread Flour". This is what I recommend using. |
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| When you measure out the flour, don't pack the it. Fill it up buy scooping the flour into the meacuring cup, then use a knife to scrape off the excess flour. |
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| Here we have the flour and the yeast. Ooh, pretty :-) |
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| Important! Squeese the yeast into the flour. Work the yeast in VERY well and do this before you add the salt. Very important, trust me. |
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| This is where you will start to get your hends dirty. It's ok... Get messy! |
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| You need to find a strong plastic scraper and use this to cut into the flour as you're adding water. Mix with the scraper until it gets to hard to use it. Then switch to using just your hands. |
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| Now start working the dough with your hands. |
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| It's going to be sticky and messy, don't worry, it's ok. It will stop being sticky soon. |
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| Now take the sticky dough and just plop it right onto your counter. Do not add any flour to your hands or the counter at this time. You really don't need it, just work with the sticky dough. At this point you do not want to add any more flour to the recipe. |
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| Work the dough.. Work it! What you want to do is pick up the dough, flip it, and then smack hard onto the counter top. then you pull it toward you while part of the dough is sticking to the counter top. Then you fold the dough back over on itself trying to capture air while doing so. |
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| Then you press it with the palm of your hand, pick it up and BAM! Slap it hard onto the counter top again, fold it over capturing air and flip slap fold, flip slap fold. |
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| You keep doing this for about 15 minutes. It's going to take some muscle and real effort! |
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