Delicious crusty white bread made easy

Pour your flour onto a larger kitchen surface and make a well in the middle. Add the yeast, salt and sugar and mix.

Make another well and slowly add the water pulling the flour from the outside in trying not to break the well otherwise you end up with water everywhere.

Keep adding the water until it is all gone and you have clean the surfaces with your dough and have a nice soft ball.

Knead the dough for 5 minutes until soft then place in a bowl, cover with clingfilm and put in a warm place to prove for 30 minutes.

Once proved, knock the dough back (basically knead it further for 5 minutes) then put into a greased tin that it’ll be cooked in. Leave in a warm place to rise for another 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Put the dough into the oven for 30 minutes. You’ll know it’s done if you knock it and it sounds hollow on the bottom.