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comment by BLOB_CASTLE
BLOB_CASTLE  ·  3452 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Made my own bread with 4 ingredients. It's the best bread I've ever tasted.

This looks very similar to what I make. Keep the salt and yeast, but to do what I did here reduce flour to 3 cups and water to 1 5/8 cup. However I have switching things up to where I'll use half unbleached white and half whole wheat. I haven't gotten the water proportion down, but it's somewhere around 1 1/4.

Another cool thing about the NYT recipe is that the bread bakes for 30 minutes with a lid on, then for another 20 with no lid. It allows for the fluff in the first stage, and then a really nice crust develops in the second.