Portuguese Peasant Bread

[satanboy]

2 tablespoons sugar
2 packages active dry yeast
1 package (225 grams) barley cereal(about 4 1/2 cups)*, uncooked
2 1/2 cups stone-ground cornmeal, preferably white
4 teaspoons salt
about 4 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
*Barley cereal can be found in the baby-food section of supermarkets.

Directions:
1. In small bowl, stir sugar and yeast into 1/2 cup warm water (40-46 degrees C); let stand until yeast mixture foams, about 5 minutes.
2. In large bowl, combine barley cereal, cornmeal, salt, and 4 cups flour. With wooden spoon, stir in yeast mixture and 2 1/2 cups warm water (40-46 degrees C) unitl combined. With floured hands, shape dough into a ball in bowl.
3. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let rise in warm place (26-29 degrees C) until doubled, about 1 hour.
4. Punch down dough and turn onto well-floured surface. Knead dough until smooth, about 5 minutes, working in more flour (about 3/4 cup) as necessary while kneading.
5. Grease large cookie sheet. Cut dough in half and shape each half into a 15-cm round. Coat each round with flour, place on cookie sheet. Cover loaves with towel and let rise in warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
6. Preheat oven to 205 degrees C. Bake loaves until golden brown, a total of about 35 minutes,using spray bottle to spritz loaves with water after first 5 minutes of baking, and again 10 minutes later. Cool on wire racks. Makes 2 loaves, 12 servings per loaf.

Prep: 20 minutes plus rising and cooling
Bake: 35 minutes

[DJ...]

Is this a recipe for pau? If so, that stuff should be reserved for building houses and political riot weapons...

[Picard]

This is like ... like ... ratatouille... it's a peasant dish.

Or it's for limp-wristed vegetarians ...

... or for men who has hemorrhoid problems because of an excess of meat in their diet.

[Kosmik]

Is this a recipe for pau? If so, that stuff should be reserved for building houses and political riot weapons...

lol, pao is bread, meaning any bread ( sorry minus the tilda above the ao ).

But if your talking about the bread that has an extremely hard crust and insides then yeah, you can build houses with that. My father used to love it, no idea why but he would buy it whenever we were in the country. I prefered papsecs thankyou.