There's nothing like homemade bread

I have found one of the easiest bread recipes that you don't have to knead. Start with 1 1/2 T of kosher salt and yeast. Mix with 3 cups warm water. Add 61/2 cups unbleached flour. Put in covered container, but do not put the cover on tight. Let sit for 2 hours until it doubles in size.

At this point you can put it away in the refrigerator or make a loaf. Sprinkle flour on dough and lift out a grapefruit size piece. Pull some of the dough around to the back of the ball, do this four times turning the ball as you go. Set dough on a cutting board sprinkled with corn meal. Leave alone for 20 minutes. Put a baking stone, pizza stone or flat pan on middle rack in oven.

Put the bottom half of a broiler pan on the lower shelf of oven. Preheat oven to 450 degrees for 45 minutes. Sprinkle flour on top of dough and make 4 slices with serrated knife. Slide dough onto baking stone, and pour one cup of hot water into the broiler pan. It will steam up. Close the oven door and wait 30 minutes for this:

One of the tastiest loaves of bread you have ever eaten. The outside is hard and crusty and the inside is soft and moist. Mmmm Mmmm.

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