couple of loaves that i made turned out okay, not great. then i finally found my groove and made approximately two loaves a week. eventually the bread machine broke and i decided that instead of buying a new one i would make my bread by hand. i fell in love with hand made loaves. the texture and shape were so different and there is something so therapeutic about kneading bread. today i modified a new recipe for homemade crusty bread to be baked in dutch oven for a perfect crust.
the recipe i modified has 4 ingredients. it takes 4 hours of total time, a half an hour of which is 