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Makes 2 large bloomers:

 

Put a sachet or teaspoon of easy bake dried yeast in a large bowl.

 

Put about 1kg of bread flour/strong flour in the bowl too.

 

Put 4 'glugs' of oil in the bowl on top of it the flour. 

Put a teaspoon of salt in to the side of the bowl.

 

Measure about half a pint of water. Use tepid-warm water in the cold weather. Add half of the water & mix in a mixer with a bread hook or with a dining knife if you don't have a mixer.

 

Keep adding water bit by bit as you mix until you get a dough. Too much water & it'll be too wet & sticky. You'll have to put more flour in. Add small amounts at a time.

 

When you get a good dough, tip it onto a lightly floured surface & kneed. Stretch it out for about 10 minutes, then leave it in a bowl for an hour or so. It'll double in size. 

 

Kneed again after your hour. Get all the bubbled out & shape 2 loaves. Put them on upside down floured baking trays. 

 

Wait. The bread will rise again. When it's about doubled again you can score the top with a few lines & put it in an oven pre-heated to 210. 

 

Bake one at a time unless you can fit them both in.

 

Give your bloomers 35 minutes then take them out. Leave them to cool. They keep baking during this time. 

 

Enjoy!