Simplified bread recipe

2 cups of King Arthur Flour plus 1 tsp of salt in a large bowl
1cup +2 tbs of luke warm water and 1 tsp of yeast (eg Fleischmann "Active Dry") in a small bowl
[note the 2 tbs are reserved for helping the dough form a single lump at the end of mixing].

Stir the yeast into the water in the small bowl until dissolved. Then pour it into the large bowl and mix until most material comes off the sides of the bowl and the dough forms one lump. Dump it out on a surface to rest 5 minutes.

Use a large flat knife to fold the dough once, then again at ninety degrees. Then put it back into the (clean) bowl.

3-4 hours rise in covered bowl, remove and fold twice and return to (cleaned) bowl
3-4 hours rise in covered bowl, remove GENTLY fold twice and return to bowl
2-3 hours cooling in fridge, then remove GENTLY
Form loaf GENTLY and place on (cornmeal covered) pan
2 hours rise on pan
Bake in moist (spritzed) oven at 425 for 10 min.
Spritz again and continue bake at 410 for 18 min.