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Ingredients
- 3 cups flour, all purpose
- 1/4 teaspoon active dry yeast
- 1 3/4 teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons fresh rosemary, chopped
- 2 teaspoons lemon zest, chopped
- 1 5/8 cups water
- 1/2 cup cornmeal, as needed
Method
- 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.
