Oats Bread from Finland

Ingredients:

50 g yeast

1 litre cold water

1-1.5 table spoons rough sea salt or 1 table spoon fine salt

1 dl oat bran

2 - 2.2 litres of wheat flour

Cooking Instructions:

Dissolve the yeast in a little water. Add the rest of the water. Dissolve the salt into the water. Measure the oat bran and mix it into this liquid. Mix in almost all the flour and pound the dough till it loosens from the side of the bowl. Sprinkle a thin layer of flour on top of the dough. Cover the bowl with a cloth. Let the dough rise undisturbed, at room temperature, for about 2 hours. Pound the dough again and put it on the baking board. Divide the dough into two parts and make two oval shaped bread blanks. Put them on a grease proof paper on the oven tray. Cover the tray with a cloth and allow to rise for about an hour at room temperature. Make a cut on the top of the loaf. Bake in the lower part of the oven at 275 Celsius for about 10 minutes. Reduce the temperature to 200 Celsius and continue baking for about 20 minutes. Cover the bread with a cloth and cool it on a wire tray. If you want the skin to be crusty, cool the bread without the cloth covering.

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