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Recipes of Arkadia: Chen Wu’s Seed Loaf

April 9, 2015

Food — growing it, preparing it, eating it — is a central part of life in the Arkadia space colony. Over the next few weeks I’m sharing recipes for some of the food mentioned in the book.

Chen Wu, one of Arkadia’s volunteer bakers, doesn’t think of himself as lazy — he’s efficient. He makes a lot of bread, so he does it the easy way: by letting time do the work. 

Recipes of Arkadia: Chen Wu's Seed Loaf
Print Recipe
Servings Prep Time
1 loaf 10 minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
50 minutes 18 hours
Servings Prep Time
1 loaf 10 minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
50 minutes 18 hours
Recipes of Arkadia: Chen Wu's Seed Loaf
Print Recipe
Servings Prep Time
1 loaf 10 minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
50 minutes 18 hours
Servings Prep Time
1 loaf 10 minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
50 minutes 18 hours
Ingredients
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp yeast
  • 2 cups water
  • 1/2 cup seeds (flax, sunflower, chia, sesame, whatever)
Servings: loaf
Instructions
  1. Add all the dry ingredients to a large bowl and stir them up.
  2. Add 2 cups of warm water, mix until you get a damp, doughy ball. You can do this all with a wooden spoon, there’s no need to knead! Cover with a cloth and let it sit overnight.
  3. The next day, pour the dough into a loaf pan and bake at 220C/425F for 40-60 minutes.
Recipe Notes

This seed loaf is my real-life everyday bread, using 3 cups of white flour, 1 cup of whole wheat and flax seed or meal. I’ve let the dough sit for more than 24 hours and as little as 8 hours. Longer is better, but the bread has always turned out.

You can use more or fewer seeds; I wouldn't go with more than a cup, though.

This recipe is based on Jim Lahey’s No-Work Bread, from How To Cook Everything.

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↑1 flax, sunflower, chia, sesame, whatever

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  1. Ellen Butland says

    April 17, 2015 at 11:20 am

    Dear Darusha, I am going to try out your bread recipe in the next few days. I am a new member to Specfic, so I have not put up a profile yet. Also I like the look of your site, is it a blog site or website. Thanks, Ellen.

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  2. darusha says

    April 18, 2015 at 1:36 pm

    Hi, Ellen. I hope you like the bread as much as I do.

    Blogs are just specific kinds of websites, and mine is a blog (based on WordPress).

    Thanks for stopping by!

    Reply

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