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| Now, you want form a nice tight ball of dough. To do this you need to work with the dough, pushing the side of the dough down and under towards the center bottom, spinning the dough as you go. |
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| Sprinkle a little flour on the dough ball in preparation for it to rest. Yes, dough has to rest every now and then, evidently it gets tired ;-) |
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| Auh, there it is. It's beautiful!!!! There sits the dough before you are going to knead it for 25 minutes. |
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| Now, cover the dough ball and let it rest for 15 minutes. |
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| Now it's time to knead that dough! |
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| I start out with traditional bread kneading where you fold, push down, turn and fold again. |
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| You will keep kneading in the traditional way for about 5-10 min. or so.. |
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| You will need to add a flour as you go a little at a time when the dough gets sticky. |
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| Add some more flour and knead some more. I shift to a more unconventional method of kneading dough for the last 20 minutes or so of the kneading. Just watch the videos on the main recipe to get the hang of it.. |
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| This is hard work! In this photo, I just finished all the kneading and I'm sweating! Yes, you may break a sweat or maybe not. Italian sweat easily!. |
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| This is really a beautiful thing! Yo have spent a lot of time up to this point to get this perfect ball of dough! |
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| This is a very important step to getting your dough to rise the best it can. A warm moist environment is very important for dough to rise. I have discovered the best way to do this is to put a baking pan on the bottom oven rack and pour boiling water in it. This will add warmth and steam into the oven. Perfect for the dough to be happy while it's rising. |
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| After you have filled the pan with boiling water, quickly put in your dough and shut the over door so as not to loose any of the nice steam that is filling your oven. Now you will let this rise for 1-1/2 hours. This is your first rise. There will be more. * This is a good time to clean up your kitchen. Note: Flour and water make paste! So, if you clean as you go it will be a lot easier. |
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