Kneading

Karri Barlow

While I have not made this exact recipe by hand, I have made many, many batches of yeast dough by hand. This looks like a fun recipe to try. I would start with mixing the dry ingredients in a bowl twice as big as you think you'll need. Then make a "bowl" in the dry ingredients that is deep enough to hold all the wet ingredients. Add the wet ingredients and begin to stir them incorporating the dry a little at a time until it is too thick to stir easily. Then roll up your sleeves and get ready to dirty your hands a little. Insert your hands along the edge of the bowl until you reach the bottom then pull the dry ingredients to the middle. Insert your hands again in the dry and give the bowl a slight twist. Pull the dry ingredients into the middle as before. Continue the cycle: insert, twist, pull; until the ingredients have been all mixed together in a lumpy mass. Now begin to knead. Insert your hands between the dough and the bowl at roughly 1:30 and 10:30, going to the bottom, bending your fingers, across the bottom, lift up the dough and fold it over the rest of the mass.