Start this the night before and your family can wake up to a fresh loaf of rustic bread. Why don’t you get to wake up to a fresh loaf of rustic bread? Well, someone has to bake it. 

INGREDIENTS

3 cups flour

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon Instant yeast

Approx. 1 1/2 cups water

1 teaspoon each of minced onion, caraway, sesame, and poppy seeds

DIRECTIONS

Mix together the first 3 ingredients. Slowly add the water until dough is wet and a little loose.  combine minced onion, and seeds then fold into the dough.  Cover and let sit on the counter overnight.  In the morning heat oven to 500 degrees with dutch oven in it so it gets hot too.  Once the oven and pot have been heating for about 30 minutes, plop the dough into the dutch oven, sprinkle with additional seeds and onion if desired. Cook covered for 30 minutes.  Take lid off and let the top of the bread brown for about 10-15 minutes.