No KNEAD bread... Part II

This is what I woke up to this morning. Beautiful!

The next step, is to flour the counter, and pour the dough out onto the floured surface. Kind of contain it, and let it rest there for about 15 minutes. This gives you plenty of time to whip up a batch of ham bean soup to put in the crock pot before leaving for church.

After you have your soup in the crock pot, or after 15 minutes, You need to take 2 cotton towels. NOT TERRY CLOTHE... you don't want bits of towel in your bread! 2 cotton towels, cover them with flour, corn meal, wheat flour... whatever you have. I love to use corn meal, but we must have decided for the corn meal not to make the move, because I could not find it this morning. I suggest corn meal, because it gives it a great looking crust. But whatever. So, this morning I used flour. Shape your dough into a ball. Put the ball seam side down onto one of the floured towels. Then cover it with the other floured towel.