Super Easy Rustic Sicilian Quick Bread

Today I was on break at home and thought it would be a great day to make my Grandma's fresh olive rosemary bread. I started to round up the ingredients but suddenly realised I had no olives!!! So I started thinking "I wonder if I could make something else instead." Well here it is, my homemade quick bread that I kinda just made up as I went along. Weird how that works, right? It's just basically a white quick bread with some olive oil in it and some olive oil and rosemary on top, but it's divine! So let's get started!

Step 1: Prepare for Launch

Let's get your ingredients together, shall we?

1 1/4 cups white bread flour plus extra for dusting the baking sheet and for the kneading process

1 tsp active dry or fast rise yeast

1 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for the top

3/4 + 1/8 cup sparkling water (or 200 ml) You could probably squeeze by with 3/4 as the dough is quite sticky

1/2 tsp salt

Dried or fresh rosemary for topping

Utensils you say?

Small/medium mixing bowl

Spoon/other stirring device

Hands (one will suffice but two is preferred)

A fire box, or in the words of your people "oven"

Baking sheet

Sharp knife or kitchen scissors

And a timing machine (timer)

Comments

[rblee]

Sounds easy and looks delicious, but don't you have to let it prove?

[garrettg]

It does the "rising" during the kneading process. You can let rise for an hour if you want a little fluffier bread :) -Garrett Mykel Groves

[milli09]

How long does it need to rise for?