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makes a loaf!

ingredients

• 500g bread flour (~4 cups + a little more)
• 300g water (~1¼ cups)
• 30g olive oil (~1 Tbsp)
• 3½g yeast (~1 tsp)
• 5-10g salt (~1 to 2 tsp)

instructions

• Stir dry ingredients together
• Add water and olive oil. Stir together and work into a ball.
• Knead until smooth and elastic (about 10 minutes)
• Cover and let rest until dough doubles in size (usually about 1 hour, sometimes longer if it's cold)
• Punch down, form into shape
• Let rest about 45 minutes to an hour. Be careful not to overproof! Dough should be risen but still firm. Should spring back when you poke it. Springy!
• Score dough and put in oven at 500°F for 30 minutes
• Remove bread from oven and let cool a while before cutting

Included rough volume measurements for when we don't have a kitchen scale on hand. I also included salt on the ingredients list for completeness, but I usually leave it out because I'm low sodium.