This bread is so good, and so simple, you will have a hard time keeping it around. And this is the simplest and quickest bread recipe I have ever encountered. Seriously, easy.
What you need:
5 Cups HOT water
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup oil
2 Tbsp salt
3 Tbsp yeast
11 1/2 cups bread flour
What you do:
Put your HOT water in a large bowl. Add sugar, oil, and salt. Mix for about 30 seconds. Add 1 1/2 cups bread flour and whisk again for 30 seconds. Your mixture should be smooth and creamy looking. Add 1 Tbsp yeast and mix for ten seconds. Add another Tbsp yeast and mix for ten seconds. Add another TBSP of yeast and mix for ten seconds, thus totaling 3 TBSP yeast and 30 seconds of mixing.
Add remaining 10 cups of bread flour and prepare to get messy. Lightly mix everything together, creating a lumpy sticky lump. Wash your hands and cover bowl for 20 minutes.
After it has sat for 20 minutes, oil your counter and dump the mixture out. Seperate into 4 equal peices. For each piece, shape into a rectangle "loaf." Then roll out following the length of the dough. You just want to stretch it out a bit. Starting at one end, roll the dough onto itself to create a loaf shape. Put the loaf into a pan coated with cooking spray. Repeat with other three lumps of dough. Place in non preheated oven. Close the door and turn oven on to 200*. Let dough rise for 20 minutes.
When 20 minutes are up, without opening oven door, turn up the heat to 325* and cook for another 30-35 minutes. The bread is done when the top is gorgeous golden. Leave it in the pan a few minutes before dumping onto cooling rack. Slice and enjoy.
