Cooking Exceptionally With Gin Lee

Baking Bread With Gin Lee: Bread Baking Essentials & Tips Welcome to the wonderful world of bread baking! If you're new to making bread at home, don't you worry one bit because I'm here to walk you through everything you need to know to get started. And if you're already an experienced baker, well, I hope you'll find a tip or two that makes your baking even better. I'll be honest with you: the first time I made bread, I was terrified! I thought it would be too complicated, too finicky, too easy to mess up. But once I got my hands in that dough and smelled that first loaf baking in my oven, I was absolutely hooked. There's something magical about turning simple ingredients: flour, water, yeast, and salt into a beautiful, golden loaf of bread. And trust me, if I can do it, so can you! Let me share some of the most important lessons I've learned over the years. These tips will help you avoid the mistakes I made when I was starting out, and t...

Country-style no-knead bread Needing bread for dinner tonight? You can start making this bread dough before breakfast and actually have a fresh loaf of bread by lunchtime. It's just that simple. This bread will not be like a typical loaf of sandwich bread. Instead, it's country-style and rustic. It's great served with stew, beans, dumplings, etc. But that's not to say that you can't slice it to make yourself a meatloaf sandwich. This bread dough is super forgiving, as long as you do not place it inside the refrigerator to rise. I started my dough at 6:30 a.m. this morning, and it will be done with its first rest around 9:30 a.m. Afterward, I will take the dough out of the bowl and shape it, but I will never knead it. While shaping the dough, I will roll it around in a flour-cornmeal mixture (to coat the outside dough). Then, after that, I will place the bread dough back into the bowl and let it rest again.  At this point is where it doesn't really matter how lon...