Combine 11g Dry Yeast, 5g Sugar, and 375ml Luke Warm Water in a mixing bowl
Leave for – yeast bloom ℹ️Mixture should be foamy
Add 500g All Purpose Flour. Mix until no dry flour remains ℹ️Mixer: dough hook on minimum for 1 minute
Add 10g Salt. Mix until incorporated ℹ️Mixer: dough hook on low, ~4 minutes total. Stop when no dry flour remains and salt is incorporated; dough should stay sticky and shaggy.
Cover with a tea towel
Leave to rise for – first rise
Shape the dough & second rise
Lightly flour a surface
Tip dough out onto surface
Sprinkle a bit of flour across the top of the dough
Pull one side of the dough away from the center and fold it in, rotate 90 degrees. Repeat ~12 times
Flour a bowl and place dough into it seam-side up
Cover with a tea towel
Preheat oven to 240°C. Place an empty dutch oven (with lid on) in the oven
Let rise another – second rise
Bake
Lay a piece of brown paper down on surface
Tip your dough onto the brown paper seam-side up
Place brown paper with dough into the hot dutch oven
Place the lid back on dutch oven and put in oven
Cook for – bake with lid
Remove lid. Continue cooking for – bake without lid
Place on cooling rack. Leave to cool for at least 30 minutes before cutting into it