Corn Bread with Yeast
Description
Homemade baked goods for tea. Corn bread is very easy to bake: all you need to do is mix all the ingredients, let them ferment, and bake. Follow this recipe and everything will turn out well. Serve warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients according to the recipe.
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Step 2
Into a bowl for making the dough, sift the corn and wheat flour, add the salt and dry yeast, and mix everything together.
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Step 3
Pour warm water into the dry mixture and knead the dough by hand or with a mixer.
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Step 4
Cover the container with plastic wrap and leave at room temperature to ferment for 2 hours.
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Step 5
After 2 hours, the dough should double in volume.
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Step 6
Prepare a bowl and line it with parchment paper, crumpling and dampening it first for flexibility. If you are not sure about the quality of the paper, you can lightly dust it with flour.
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Step 7
Dust the work surface with flour and place the dough on it.
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Step 8
Roll out the dough sheet and fold it envelope-style, first bringing two opposite sides together.
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Step 9
Then fold the two remaining sides toward each other.
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Step 10
With smooth movements, shape the dough into a ball.
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Step 11
Place the dough in the prepared bowl with the seam side down.
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Step 12
Cover the dough with plastic wrap greased on one side with vegetable oil, oily side toward the dough. Leave it like this for 30 minutes.
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Step 13
Prepare a baking dish. A cast iron Dutch oven works best. If you don’t have one, you can bake in a heavy skillet. Put the pot in a cold oven and set the oven to top-and-bottom heat at 230°C. Preheat the pot for 30 minutes.
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Step 14
After 30 minutes, remove the plastic wrap from the dough.
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Step 15
Lightly dust the surface of the dough with flour and make slashes with a sharp knife or a razor blade so steam can escape during baking.
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Step 16
Carefully transfer the bread into the hot pot by the paper corners, cover with a lid, and bake for 30 minutes at 230°C.
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Step 17
After 30 minutes, remove the paper (you can leave it on; if so, skip this step) and bake for another 30 minutes at the same temperature, 230 degrees.
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Step 18
Let the finished bread cool completely on a wire rack.
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Step 19
The cooled bread can be served at the table; it is very tasty, fluffy, and aromatic.