Old-Fashioned Sandwich Loaf

While the everyday bread on my table is always the round, crackle-crusted no-knead loaf that precedes this recipe, there are times when I just want a slice of old-school bread, deeply unfashionable in these sourdough-days, but oh-so-comforting to eat. I mean, I love sourdough, but I don’t want to make a fish finger sandwich with it. And a fish finger sandwich – the food that most often sustains me as I write – made with this bread has led me to recant utterly my long-held view that it could