Recipe - Ciabatta For The Bread Machine

SPONGE
1 One half cup Allpurpose flour;
unbleached
1 cup Water
One fourth teaspoon Active dry yeast; (not rapid
rise)

DOUGH
Sponge
1 teaspoon Yeast
1 One half cup Allpurpose flour;
unbleached
1 One half teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Sugar
One fourth cup Water
Plus enough olive oil to =
1/3 cup liquid

Can't make this Ciabatta in anything else because the dough is so wet.
[Lora]

Mix together the ingredients and let them rest overnight in a covered bowl
at room temp

Make this very wet dough in the bread machine. It should be between a
batter and a runny dough.Shape into 2 ciabatta long, rough ovals about 4
x 10 inches. Form on oiled baking sheet. Let rise till light and bubbly,
using your fingers to poke indentations in the dough all over about One half way
through the rising period. Bake in a preheated 450 oven spraying with water
once or twice during baking (or add ice cubes to bottom of oven). Bake 25
minutes, then cool in turned off oven with door cracked open. Dust with
flour.

Lora Brody From: Blanche007@aol.com

Recipe by: Lora Brody

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #833 by Nancy Berry nlberry@prodigy.net on
Oct 09, 1997