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Prep Time: 24 mins

Cooking Time: 24 mins

Serves: 10-12

If you’re interested in baking bread at home, this is a great place to start. This is a recipe adapted from Rose Levy Beranbaum’s “The Bread Bible” which my mother edited. The final product is a deliciously plush, fine-crumbed loaf with a mild and delicate flavor. You’d never know this beautiful loaf was made in a food processor. It’s easy and the ricotta does wonders for the texture. It stands up to being sliced thinly for delicious sandwich bread, or just swipe it with salty butter and good jam.

Ingredients

3 1/2 cups (500 grams) all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons (25 grams) sugar

1-1/2 teaspoons (4.8 grams) instant yeast

1 cup plus 1-1/2  tablespoons (250 grams) whole-milk ricotta

7 tablespoons (100 grams) unsalted butter, softened plus extra for greasing

1 large egg

1-1/2 teaspoons (10 grams) salt

1/2 cup (118 grams) cold water

Yield: 1 loaf – 10-12 servings

Instructions

  1. Make the dough:  In the bowl of the food processor, combine the flour, sugar, yeast, ricotta, butter, egg, and salt and pulse about 15 times. With the motor running, add the cold water and blend for 1 minute.
  2. Preheat oven to 375F.
  3. Let it rise: Put dough in lightly greased bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Allow to rise until doubled, 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured flat surface and shape into a loaf and place it in a buttered 9″ by 5″ loaf pan. Cover the dough loosely with buttered plastic wrap and allow it to rise until almost doubled, about 45 minutes to one hour and 15 minutes.
  4. Bake: Use a paring knife to make a long 1/2-inch slash down the middle of the bread. Mist the dough with water and set the pan on the preheated baking stone. Add 1/2 cup ice cubes into the pan on the bottom shelf and close oven door. Bake 40 to 50 minutes. Turn bread around about halfway through baking for more even browning. If bread is getting too brown on top, drape a piece of foil loosely on the top. Unmold bread and place on wire rack. Brush with soft butter. Cool and slice.

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