Super Easy French Bread!

The recipe may look long, but it really is one of the easiest bread recipes I have found. You only have to think to make it like 40 min. before you want to eat instead of having to think of dinner in the morning.

French Bread

Combine:
2 T. yeast
½ c. warm water
Set aside

Combine:
6 c. flour
6 T. oil (abt. 1/3 c.)
4 T. sugar
½ t. salt
1 ½ c. hot water
Yeast water mixture

1. Mix all in mixer with dough hook
2. Cover for 10 min.
3. Punch down
4. Cover for 10 min.
5. Punch down
6. Cover for 10 min.
7. Punch down, knead
8. Divide into loaves (like oval french bread looking loaves), butter cookie sheet, place loaves (2 big, 3 smaller) on cookie sheet. Cut little \ \ \ \ \ across top of loaves and butter with melted butter.
9. Pre-heat oven 400º
10. Let rise 30 min. (I never let it rise that long, I put it on my oven while it’s pre-heating, and then when it’s done pre-heating, my bread is about the size I want it).
11. Bake 20 min. or until golden brown. Butter again with melted butter. Enjoy!

**This recipe also makes good soup bowls. Just form them into fist size balls on step #8 and cut an X in the top of the ball, then continue with step 9.