Meyer Lemon Rosemary Bread Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Place the flours, zest, rosemary, salt and yeast in the bowl of a heavy duty stand mixer.
• 2. Whisk the dry ingredients thoroughly to mix the flours and distribute the zest, rosemary, yeast and salt.
• 3. Combine the water, cider and olive oil and add to the dry ingredients.
• 4. Use the flat paddle of the stand mixer to combine the ingredients. Remove the paddle and let the ingredients "autolyze" for 20 to 30 minutes. This allows the flours to hydrate and the gluten to start to develop.
• 5. Using the dough hook, knead the dough on medium low speed for 12 minutes. Remove the dough hook.
• 6. At this point, you will have a quite sticky dough. Allow it to rise in the mixing bowl (covered) until it has tripled in size, about 1 1/2 hours.
• 7. Carefully scrape the dough from the bowl onto a well-floured counter. Shape it gently into a loaf shape by gently pulling the sides under the bottom.
• 8. Since this is a fairly slack dough, it will need some support to maintain its shape. Choose a pan to bake it in depending on the final shape you desire. An oval gratin or fish pan works well. Butter the pan and line the bottom with parchment paper to prevent the bread from sticking.
• 9. Allow the bread to at least double in size again in the baking pan, about 30 minutes.
• 10. Preheat the oven to 450F and bake the bread for 45 minutes. Turn the oven off. Remove the bread from the pan, set it on the oven shelf, allowing the bread to sit in the cooling oven for another 15 minutes.
• 11. Cool the bread on a rack.

Steps:

• In large bowl, combine flour, yeast, salt, rosemary and zest.
• Add 1 5/8 cups water, stir until blended (dough will be shaggy and sticky)
• Cover with plastic wrap.
• Let dough rest at warm room temperature (70F) until surface is dotted with bubbles (12-18 hours) Pleace dough on lightly floured surface.
• Sprinkle dough with flour, fold dough over onto itself once or twice.
• Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest 15 minutes.
• Using very little flour, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball. Generously coat smoot cotton towel with cornmeal.
• Put dough, seam side down, on towel. dust with more flour or cornmeal. Cover with another towel; let rise until dough is more than double in size and does not readily spring back when pokked with a finger, about 2 hours.
• t least 30 minutes before dough is ready, put 2 3/4 quart cast-iron pot in oven; preheat oven to 450°F.
• Remove pot from oven.
• Slide hand under towel; turn dough over, seam side up, into pot; it's OK if it looks messy.
• Cover with lid; bake 30 minutes.
• Uncover, bake until loaf is browned, 15-30 minutes more.
• Set pot on wire rack; cool 10 minutes.
• Using oven mitts, turn pot on side; gently turn bread, it will release easily.