Farl
This bread is a very English loaf, traditionally baked on the bottom of the oven, hence its other name: oven bottoms!
Ingredients
- 500 g strong white flour plus extra for dusting
- 10 g salt
- 20 g yeast
- 60 g butter softened
- 300 ml water
Instructions
- Put all the ingredients into a bowl and mix for 4 minutes.
- Tip out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 5 minutes until the dough is smooth and pliable.
- Leave in the bowl to rise for 1 hour.
- Line a baking tray.
- Tip the dough out onto your floured surface and shape into a ball, then flatten into a circle about 5 cm/2 inches thick.
- Put on the baking tray and leave to rise for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/gas mark 7.
- Cover the top of the dough with flour and, starting from the middle, make vertical slashes down the dough all the way round.
- Bake in the oven for 30 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
