Julia's French Bread.

This is not a hard recipe but takes a long time most of which is not active time.

3 cups of bread flour
2 teaspoons of salt
2 1/4 teaspoon of yeast

Put a 1/3 cup of hot tap water into a mixing bowl and sprinkle with yeast and let rest for 10 min.

Sprinkle on salt and slowly add in flour until combined.

Let rest for 3 min.  Knead for10 min by hand or 5 min with a dough hook.  It comes out nicer by hand.  Flour surface as needed.

Rise at room temperature until doubled 3-5 hours. Punch down and rise again.  Shape into two loaves and place a couple cuts on the top.  Rise over night in the fridge,

Bake at 450 for 40 min.  Cool and then slice.