Fairly simple farmers bread.

🕑 ~2 hours

Ingredients

• ~600g Flour
• 25g Yeast(not dry yeast)
• 4dl Water
• 1tbsp Honey
• 2tsp Salt

Yeah that’s it, really.

Steps

This bread is 99% technique. Forming the gluten in the bread and having the correct moisture.

1. Put the yeast and honey in a bowl.
2. Whisk in 37°c water into the honey and yeast. Any temperature above 37°c will kill the yeast so be careful.
3. Let the yeast mixture sit for about 5 minutes to let it eat some of the sugars in the honey. Should be a bit foamy.
4. With hand mixer with dough hooks(or stand mixer), mix in the flour and salt. Don’t mix in all the flour, just enough for it to release from the sides. How much flour you need depends greatly on the day and the position of the planets in the solar system. You want the dough kind of sticky.
5. Kneed the dough with the mixer for a while to develop the gluten.
6. Leave the dough in a bowl, cover with a kitchen towel, let it rise for ~1 hour. Leave it somewhere not cold.
7. Take the dough out, on a floured work surface stretch the dough out and fold it on it self. Do it all the way around. “Stretch and folds”. Google it.
8. Set oven to 225°c, heat the dutch oven at the same time.
9. Flour the bottom of the bread slightly, drop it in the dutch oven, flour the top.

9. Bake with lid on for ~30 min.
10. Bake without lid for another ~10 min or until it has a nice colour.
11. Take it out, let it cool. Preferably on a rack.

If you cut into it while its still warm it will dry out faster, be patient! The bread is good for about 3 days, works in the toaster on day 4.