One-Step Breads & Rolls

These are one-step breads in the sense that to make the dough, you will simply combine all the ingredients at once rather than creating a sponge separately that’s mixed into the rest of the dough ingredients after it has fermented. I would like to correct a misconception about bread baking right up front: you do not need to beat up your dough. Rather, the gentle mixing method used here assures maximum flavour, because flavour-bearing pigments in the flour don’t dissipate as they do with prolonged mixing. Another misconception about bread baking is that it requires a big time commitment. This is only half right: you do need to be around in order to take care of the various steps, but none of the individual steps is actually time-consuming. Because I’ve designed these recipes using the one-step process, these are breads to bake and eat in one day, unlike their artisan cousins, which can take four or five days to create.