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French Bread

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This recipe is super easy to make and super delicious. 

Ingredients

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1 envelope Rapid Rise yeast
1 tsp granulated sugar
1-1/4 cup warm water
2-1/4 cups bread flour
1-1/4 tsp salt

Instructions

Put yeast, sugar and warm water in a medium sized bowl. Whisk together, cover and let sit for 10 minutes.

Add flour and stir together until incorporated. Add salt and stir again.

Leave in bowl, cover and let sit 1 hour in a warm place.

Take out of bowl and on a floured surface hand mold into a ball. Add a little amount of flour as needed but do not overwork the dough.

Put into a bowl or a floured proofing basket. Cover. Let rise for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile heat oven to 450 degrees F. Take a covered dutch oven and put into the oven to preheat.

Flip the dough out of the bowl or proofing basket onto a parchment paper.

Take the dutch oven out of the oven and pick up the dough by the ends of the parchment paper and place into the dutch oven parchment and all. Cover dutch oven.

Bake 30 minutes at 450 degrees F. Remove dutch oven lid and bake for another 10 to 15 minutes.