PROJECT 212: OLIVE BREAD

I love to bake this bread.  Sometimes I omit the olives, onion  and oregano, and  I have used brown bread flour as well to make a brown bread.  This is super easy, and it has never failed.....a recipe worth trying!  It originally came out of a camping recipe book, and was made in an iron pot on an open fire, but I started making it in the oven, and been making it for years.

4 1/2 cups cake flour
2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 X 10g instant yeast
1 tsp white vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil(I have used normal sunflower oil with the same success before)
2 cups lukewarm water
2 small onions, chopped
1 cup black olives, pips removed and quartered
1 tbsp dried oregano

Mix the first 4 ingredients.  Mix the vinegar, oil and water and add to the dry ingredients.  Mix and knead the dough for about 10 minutes.  Cover the bowl with glad wrap and leave in a warm place until doubled in size.  Add the rest of the ingredients and knead down lightly.  Cover your hands with olive oil, and form your dough to fill your pan.  Place in a warm spot until it had doubled again, and then bake it for about an hour at 180*C.

If you make it on an open fire, put the lid on the pot, and remember to add some coals on the lid as well.