Potjie Bread

Potjie No: Flat Pot guide
Serves: 8
Cooking Time: 1 hr 15 min
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Ingredients

500 g white bread flour
500 g wholewheat flour
12 ml salt
25 ml white sugar
10 g instant yeast
500 ml milk
500 ml water
40 ml butter or margarine

Method

• Mix the dry ingredients and yeast in a big mixing bowl.
• Heat the milk, water and butter until lukewarm.
• Add enough of the lukewarm mixture to the dry ingredients to form a soft dough. Knead until elastic and leave in a warm place to rise.
• Knead lightly and shape into a ball.
• Preheat the oven to 200 ºC.
• Grease a medium-sized, flat-bottomed, cast-iron pot with butter or margarine and place the dough inside.
• Also grease the top of the dough and the inside of the lid with butter.
• Put the lid on and leave in a warm place until the dough has doubled in volume.
• Bake at 200 ºC for 15 minutes, then lower the oven temperature to 180 ºC.
• Bake for another hour or until cooked and the bread sounds hollow when tapped. Leave in the pot to cool slightly, then remove.
• Makes 1 large loaf.