Items
- Lidded cast iron dutch oven.
- Parchement paper
- Bowl
Ingredients
- 3 cups flour
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp yeast
- 1 2/3 cups warm water
- herbs of your choice (1 T of rosemary works pretty well)
Make The Dough
- Mix everyhing to produce a somewhat wet dough.
- Cover the dough and rest for about 12 hours in a warm place
- Put lots of flour on a clean surface and turn out the dough.
- Lightly tuck the sides under the dough to make a ball
- Place parchement paper (enough to pick the dough back up later) in the bowl and put the dough on top
- rest for about 2 hours in a warm place
Cook The Bread
- Pre-heat the oven to 425 with the dutch oven inside
- Take the (HOT!) dutch oven from the oven and remove the lid
- Pick up the parchement paper with dough in the middle and carefully put it into the dutch oven
- Cover the dutch oven and place it back in the oven.
- Bake for 30 minutes, covered and then 15 minutes un-covered.
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