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Weighing flour for bread making is best; weigh flour into a large basin
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Add salt and combine; add dry yeast granules, or same weight in wet yeast; and combine with fingers working it into flour (salt and yeast should never touch when making dough)
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Weigh water; add water around edges of basin, using D-shaped spatula with your hand to work water into dry ingredients
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Mix water into flour thoroughly; this is a highly saturated dough (do not add more flour)
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Pour mixture onto working surface; using D-shaped spatula, gather all flour into dough and form a ball (it will be sticky)
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Dust hands lightly with flour; throw ball of dough onto counter in a circular motion, using both hands to gather it in, then throw it out onto the counter, pulling it back in a circular motion (it will stick at first, but after about 15 minutes, gluten with be worked enough to stop sticking, and you will then make a ball with the dough
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Sit it in a warm place to proof until double in size, about an hour
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Carefully follow instructions within slide show below to make either bread or buns
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Rise for 45 minutes; bake at 500 F for 12 minutes