I've tried many, many times to make a decent loaf of bread. I've done sloppy dough, I've done kneaded dough, I've done in-between dough. Nothing worked ! Until yesterday. The bread was perfect.
450grams wholemeal flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon brown sugar
2 teaspoons dried yeast
350ml tepid water.
Mix the dry ingredients
slowly add the water, beating with a wooden spoon.
when it becomes too stiff to use the spoon anymore,
start squeezing by hand. Keep stretching and squeezing
until the dough leaves the bowl clean.
Put the dough into a greased baking tin and stand near a warm radiator out of the draught. When it has doubled in size, put it in the top of the oven pre-heated to gas mark 7, 220C for 40 minutes.
Magic!