Tasty, easy and great gifts for anyone who eats bread
Measure yeast, put in container on one side
Measure salt, put in container on other side.
This is just the normal way to make bread, without salt and yeast touching until water is added
Pour in very warm water, do not overheat and it kills the yeast
Measure in 8 cups bread flour.
Now that all this hard work is complete, mix with spoon until well blended
Now use what God gave you, your own hand. Just be sure all ingredients are mixed, doesn't take long
Put top on container, leaving one side not pushed all the way down so that the built up pressure can be released
Let double in size for 40 minutes plus
Remove top and sprinkle a little flour on top and form ball, a little larger than hand (or 1/3 of mixture)
Place ball onto parchment paper and cover with cloth
Place dutch oven (uncovered) into oven and heat oven to 450 degrees
Once oven is heated, remove cloth and score the bread (just looks nice and helps bread crust)
Pick up dough by corners of parchment paper and plop into hot dutch oven
Put top on dutch oven and bake for 20 minutes
Remove top and bake approx. 10 - 15 minutes longer or until crust is golden brown (as you can see by the picture, this was was not scored
Take out of oven, place bread on cooling rack and try to wait until it cools somewhat before you cut off that end piece and slather with butter.
ENJOY