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Easiest Homemade Bread

makepurethyheart
Found this very easy recipe and made it even easier. You can do it too! This is a very forgiving dough and a good gateway to the amazing world of bread baking.
Prep Time 3 hours 3 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 3 hours 43 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American, French, Fusion
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • 3 Cups all purpose flour
  • 5 tablespoon olive oil
  • 5 tablespoon maple or any other sweeter
  • 1 Pack active dry yeast
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • 1.5 Cup very hot water not boiling I mix ½ boiling water with 1 cup of room temperature water

Instructions
 

  • Mix all dry ingredients, yeast, flour, salt.
  • Add liquids, 1.5 water, maple syrup, olive oil.
  • Give it a good stir to make the dough. Don’t spend a lot of time here just a minute of stirring is good as long as all components are integrated. Drizzle with oil cover. Leave for 3 hours to rise.
  • Deflate, fold the sides to form the shape of your bread, oil and dust the bottom of the pot. Transfer the shaped dough. Cover the pot. This will create steam that will help with the moisture of your bread.
  • In a preheated 450 degree oven, pop in your pot. Cook for 30 minutes with cover and 10 minutes uncovered, take it out of the heat and rest for another 10 minutes. Let the cooking finish on the inside of the bread before cutting. This is called carry over cooking.
  • enjoy

Video

Notes

Store in a airtight container
Complete the bread’s resting time
Practice doing this very easy ditch oven method
Original recipe required parchment paper to avoid over charring on the bottom of the bread. 
Let me know how yours turned out! @makepurethyheart.com
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