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🍞 Home Recipe 🥖
Ingredients: (BREAD)
4 cups flour
1 packet of instant rise yeast
2 tsp salt
2 cups warm water 💧
Directions:
1) Combine flour, salt & yeast
2) I used a wooden spoon (it will look doughy and sticky, that's normal)
3) Cover bowl and let rise for at least 2 hours(I used a towel)
4) After 2 hours, I took the dough and kneaded and pulled softly but only a few time not more than four times.
5) Preheat oven to 450 with Dutch oven inside!
6) Place dough into the hot (greased) dutch oven seam side up! Bake for 30 minutes covered then remove lid and bake additional 10 minutes to get a nice crust. Slice once cool!
After a while I don’t think I waited two hours before putting in the oven. I let the bowls sit on the oven top to “rise”. I just baked them as I went in a dutch oven.
Additional tips/notes:
I’m still learning.
have fun baking and playing with ingredients.
Thanks for reading!
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