Impress Your Friends and Neighbors Bread
If you want an easy European style boule bread or want to bake a gift to impress your friends and neighbors I have a bread recipe for you. I bake basically all of our bread and buns now using a rotation of three bread recipes – of which this is my favorite. I got this recipe from a friend who I believe told me it originally appeared in the NY Times. Wherever it came from, I’ve tweaked it and converted the water and flour measurements to mass (rather than volume)*.
*I have started to convert all of my baking recipes to mass rather than volume. It is so much quicker, accurate, and cleaner (no measuring cups to wash) than baking by volume. It allows you to bake with consistent results every time regardless of the amount of “help” your toddler gives you with measuring and pouring in the ingredients. I use this scale and it is one of my most useful kitchen tools.