Dougherty Family Recipe Box

Category: Bread

  • Pizza Dough

    Ingredients

    • 4 cups all purpose flour
    • 1 1/2 cups water
    • 2 teaspoons salt
    • 1/2 teaspoon dry yeast

    Method

    1. Activate yeast in water.
    2. Add flour and salt, mix dough using dough hook attachment on stand mixer.
    3. Cover and let rise 2 hours.
    4. Punch down dough.
    5. Divide dough into thirds and ball.
    6. Cover and let dough rest 1 hour.
    7. Roll out 1 ball of dough, add toppings, and bake according to directions for toppings.

    Source

    Barkley family recipe.

  • Sourdough Pretzels

    Takes about 3 hours, best if eaten the day they are baked.

    Ingredients

    Dough

    • 3/4 cup water
    • 1 cup wet sourdough starter
    • 3 cups all-purpose flour
    • 1/4 cup powdered skim milk
    • 1 tablespoon honey
    • 1 tablespoon butter
    • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
    • 2 teaspoons instant yeast

    Method

    1. Mix together all ingredients, knead until a slightly sticky dough is formed.
    2. Cover and rise for 45 minutes.
    3. Preheat oven to 350°F.
    4. Give the dough several folds.
    5. Divide dough into 12 pieces.
    6. Roll each piece into an 18 inch rope.
    7. Form each rope into a pretzel shape.
    8. Bring 10 cups of water and 3/4 cup baking soda to a rolling boil. 
    9. One at a time, put pretzels in boiling water, let sit for 8-10 seconds, flip and boil for another 8-10 seconds, then remove from boiling water.
    10. Put pretzels onto a parchment covered baking sheet.
    11. Sprinkle pretzel salt onto pretzels.
    12. Bake pretzels for 30 minutes (no second rising).
    13. May brush pretzels with melted butter while they are fresh out of the oven.

    Source

  • Sourdough Bread

    Ingredients

    • 3 cups all-purpose flour
    • 1/2 cup wet sourdough starter
    • 1 1/2 cup water
    • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt

    Method

    1. Combine flour, starter, and water in stand mixer bowl.
    2. Knead with dough hook on low until all of the flour is wet.
    3. Let sit 5 minutes.
    4. Add salt.
    5. Knead with dough hook on low for ten more minutes until dough is knarly.
    6. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and allow to rise until doubled.
    7. Shape dough and place on baking tray or pan.
    8. Cover with damp tea towel and rise until doubled.
    9. Preheat oven to 425°F.
    10. Bake for 50-60 minutes, bread is done when the bottom of the loaf sounds hollow when tapped.
    11. Cool finished loaf on a wire rack.

    Source

    Site now defunct: http://www.joejaworski.com/bread/bread2.htm