Pumpkin Seed No Knead Easy Bread 12 18 Hour Recipes

Steps:

• Measure your flour using the same measure you use for liquids, rather than a dry measure. The flour can be loosely spooned or poured into the measure but don't pack it.
• Place flour into bowl, add salt and yeast, and stir lightly.
• Put honey into liquid measure, add water and stir to dissolve.
• Add pumpkin seeds and oat bran (use dry measure for these).
• Stir water and honey into bowl and mix the dough well enough with a spoon to make sure there are no dry spots; it's ok if the dough is sticky, but it shouldn't be excessively so. Add flour only if you can't avoid it. (You may oil your hands to make mixing the dough easier if you like using your hands to mix).
• Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set it aside in a dark place, or cover the plastic with cloth. Take note of the time.
• 6 hours later, check your dough and see if you can discern bubbles at the surface. There should be some development, but probably not much.
• Check your dough again at the 12 hour mark--if the bubbles are all over the dough and it sinks in when you poke a damp finger into it, it is ready to start oven prep. If not you may wait longer, perhaps as long as another 6 hours. This is the hard part, because it's up to you and the bread. You can choose to go ahead but the dough will be less developed.
• When you and the bread are ready, remove it from the bowl onto a lightly oiled surface and shape it into a round. Let rest 15 minutes.
• Knead or shape the bowl into a loaf form and put into the oiled pan of choice--this can be a baking sheet or a regular loaf pan. Let rise for two or more hours, until it has appreciably filled the pan or risen significantly. You can check this again with a finger poke- When it doesn't fill in, the gluten is developed enough to hold the bread in shape.
• Bake at 425°F for half an hour, lower temp to 375° and give it another 20-30 minutes, going by how dark the bread appears.When it is done, it should easily slide out of your pan.
• Cool completely before slicing if you can wait long enough for that!

Steps:

• Place pumpkin puree into a large mixing bowl and whisk in 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon warm water, salt, yeast, and pumpkin pie spice until thoroughly combined. Beat in flour to make a dry crumbly dough. Keep stirring until dough becomes smooth and sticky, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Cover bowl with a damp towel and let dough stand 12 to 16 hours to rise.
• Generously sprinkle cornmeal onto center area of a baking sheet. Scrape dough out of bowl, using a floured spatula, onto a heavily floured work surface. Dough will be very sticky. Dust dough with flour and gently flatten into an oblong shape. Fold 2 opposite rounded ends together to meet in the center; fold remaining 2 rounded ends to meet in the center, creating a rectangle of dough. Using well-floured hands, gently form into a round loaf with the seams on the bottom.
• Transfer dough round onto center of prepared baking sheet. Dust top and sides of loaf generously with more flour.
• Dust a dry towel with flour and place towel with floured side down over loaf. Let rise until loaf has almost doubled in size, 1 1/2 hours. Use a sharp knife to cut a 1/2-inch deep slit across the top of the loaf.
• Place a loaf pan containing about 2 inches of water onto a bottom rack of oven. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• Bake on center rack of the preheated oven for 30 minutes; turn bread around in oven. Continue to bake until bread is golden brown and crusty, about 20 more minutes. Let bread cool completely on a rack before slicing.