Categories: Breads

Ingredients

• 5 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups old fashioned oats
• 1/3 cup maple syrup
• 3 Tbsp. melted butter
• 1 Tbsp. olive oil
• 2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. active or instant yeast
• 2 1/4 cups room temperature water

Directions

1. Combine all of the ingredients in a large bowl and stir well ( a couple of minutes) to combine into a tacky, messy dough. (I used a stand mixer.) Cover with plastic wrap or kitchen towel and allow to rise at room temperature for 8 to 12 hours.
2. Gently scrape the dough onto a well-floured surface and shape into a round or oblong loaf. Place the loaf on a well-floured towel and allow to sit for an hour.
3. Meanwhile, heat oven to 450 degrees with a lidded 10-inch (about 8-quart) Dutch oven or baking crock in it. When the dough is ready and the oven is hot, turn the dough off of the towel into the hot Dutch oven and cover with the lid. Bake, covered, for 30 minutes, then remove the lid and continue to bake until the crust is deep brown, 15 to 20 minutes more.
4. Remove the bread from the oven, turn it out from the pot and allow to cool completely before slicing. Bread will keep, well wrapped, for about 5 days.

5. makes 1 large loaf.

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