No Knead Holiday Pumpkin Bread

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Description

The dough is so soft, so supple, so sensual that it’s a joy to make this bread. Pumpkin gives it a soft color and super-subtle flavor. It’s a great country bread.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup pure pumpkin puree
  • 1 cup warm water (100 degrees F/40 degrees C)
  • 1 tablespoon warm water (100 degrees F/40 degrees C)
  • 1 ¼ teaspoons salt
  • ¼ teaspoon active dry yeast
  • 1 tiny pinch pumpkin pie spice
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon cornmeal, or as needed

Instructions

  1. Place pumpkin puree into a large mixing bowl and whisk in 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon warm water
  2. salt
  3. yeast
  4. and pumpkin pie spice until thoroughly combined. Beat in flour to make a dry crumbly dough. Keep stirring until dough becomes smooth and sticky
  5. 2 to 3 minutes.
  6. Cover bowl with a damp towel and let dough stand 12 to 16 hours to rise.
  7. Generously sprinkle cornmeal onto center area of a baking sheet. Scrape dough out of bowl
  8. using a floured spatula
  9. onto a heavily floured work surface. Dough will be very sticky. Dust dough with flour and gently flatten into an oblong shape. Fold 2 opposite rounded ends together to meet in the center; fold remaining 2 rounded ends to meet in the center
  10. creating a rectangle of dough. Using well-floured hands
  11. gently form into a round loaf with the seams on the bottom.
  12. Transfer dough round onto center of prepared baking sheet. Dust top and sides of loaf generously with more flour.
  13. Dust a dry towel with flour and place towel with floured side down over loaf. Let rise until loaf has almost doubled in size
  14. 1 1/2 hours. Use a sharp knife to cut a 1/2-inch deep slit across the top of the loaf.
  15. Place a loaf pan containing about 2 inches of water onto a bottom rack of oven. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
  16. Bake on center rack of the preheated oven for 30 minutes; turn bread around in oven. Continue to bake until bread is golden brown and crusty
  17. about 20 more minutes. Let bread cool completely on a rack before slicing.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 50 mins

Total Time: 14 hrs 40 mins

Servings: 8

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