Title: DO Plain Bread

Yield: 1 12" round loaf

Category: Bread, Dutch Oven

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Ingredients

Instructions

Directions For Making The Dough:
Combine all the ingredients and mix or knead into a soft dough
Place into a greased metal bowl and let it rise for an hour, somewhere warm.
After the rise punch it down a bit and form it into a ball.
Cover the dough ball with a greased piece of plastic wrap.
Start pre-heating the Dutch Oven....pre-heating the oven is THE most important part.
After a 30 minute give the dough ball a few slashes with a sharp knife and put it into the Dutch Oven.

Off To The Dutch Oven:
Pre oil the Dutch Oven with a about 1/2 Tbs of olive oil.
Place dough into the Dutch Oven on a piece of parchment paper.

Keeping An Eye On It:
Rotate the DO and the lid a 1/4 turn every 15 minutes.
Checked the status of the coals and each time the DO is turned and add coals as needed.
Regular bread baking takes about 35 minutes in a standard oven but in the DO it takes the better part of 90 minutes.

When bread reaches 200 degrees as measured with a thermometer, it should be done.