Toast Butter Bread

INSTRUCTIONS

• 1
  Pour 450 ml of water and crumbled yeast into the bowl of a stand mixer, then add the remaining ingredients. Mix in the stand mixer at medium speed for 10 minutes until a fine, smooth dough forms. Sprinkle a work surface with flour, turn the dough out onto it, cover with a clean cloth, and let it rise in a warm place for 30 minutes.
• 2
  Shape the risen dough with your hands into a log, which you then divide into 8 equal parts, forming balls from them.
• 3
  Grease a baking pan with oil and place the balls next to each other in it. Gently press the balls and let them rise in a warm place for 45–50 minutes, until the dough reaches 2 cm above the edge of the pan.
• 4
  Preheat the oven to 250 °C.
• 5
  Spray the oven walls with water using a spray bottle until steam begins to form. Work quickly. Immediately place the pan inside, close the oven, and bake for 3 minutes. Open the oven to release excess steam, reduce the temperature to 175 °C, and continue baking for another 35 minutes until light brown.
• 6
  Remove the bread from the pan and let it cool on a wire rack.