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# Spectacular homemade bread

It has a flavor and texture that’s better than anything you’ll find in a store and requires

- No bread machine
- No stand mixer
- No hand kneading
- No baking stone

Takes about 15 minutes of actual work and tastes incredible!

Equipment:
Kitchen scale
4 -6 quart plastic food container with lid.
Small pot or dutch oven with heatproof lid, about 7″ across

Important! A note about the pot lid: Google the manufacturer’s instructions for your pot and make sure that the pot and lid can handle 450°F in the oven.

Ingredients:
500 | grams | Bread Flour, unbleached, un-enriched, if possible.
400 | grams | Water – if you have great tap water, that’s fine. If it smells bad or has chlorine or there’s anything else wrong, use bottled water.
1/4 | teaspoon | Instant Yeast
12 | grams | Kosher Salt

Directions compliments of Steve W.

Directions:

- Whisk yeast and water together until dissolved.
- Add flour and salt. Stir thoroughly with handle of wooden or plastic spoon until there is no dry flour visible.
- Cover and leave for ½ – 1 hour.
- When it looks like dough, take out of bucket.
- Stretch dough, fold in half, rotate 90°. Repeat 4 – 6 times until you feel the dough tighten up
- Put it back in bowl, cover. Let it double in size, approximately 4 hours.
- Do stretch again as above. Return to bowl. Let it double in size, approximately 4 hours.
- Preheat oven and pot with lid to 450° about ½ hour before baking.
- When doubled in size, transfer dough to hot pot; use gravity to help. Sprinkle with sesame seeds, cover and put into oven.
- Remove lid after about 20-30 minutes and bake another 20 minutes with lid off.
- When the bread looks crusty and dark brown it is done. Cool on rack. Enjoy!

Makes 1 loaf.

Note that the timing isn’t critical as long as it has at least doubled in size. You can happily leave this on the counter then check it in the morning.