The Raynaudes ‘wood fired oven’ loaf

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    loaf
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Table in the Tarn: Living, Eating and Cooking in South-west France

By Orlando Murrin

Published 2008

  • About

I dream of having my own wood-fired oven to cook in, but in the meantime I have found a way to bake a loaf of bread with a fabulous crust. The dough itself is very simple.

Ingredients

  • walnut-size piece fresh yeast
  • 300 ml hand-hot water
  • 450 g strong

Method

Dissolve the yeast in the water. Put the flour and 1½ tsp salt in the processor, turn on and add the yeast mixture through the feed tube. Once the mixture has combined, count to 45 then stop. Use your hands to scoop the mixture out and knead for about 30 seconds by hand. (I make this in our heavy-duty Robot Coupe food processor, although any large strong processor should do the job. Otherwise,