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Bread Machine Prosphora
(Byzantine Style)

Note: This recipe was kindly submitted by Michelle Dresdow and Denise Anderson, to whom I owe an apology for not posting sooner. They noted that this recipe will vary from machine to machine and ingredients may need adjusting.
This recipe makes one Byzantine style loaf.

Ingredients

• Bread machine unbleached flour - 3 1/2 cups
• Hot (~100 degrees) water - 1 1/8 cups
• Dry Yeast - 1 tsp.
• Salt - 1 tsp.
• Nothing else! I'll comment later on why.

  
  Instructions

  1. Set bread machine on dough cycle.
     
  2. Take out dough and shape loaf. Put shaped dough in round, floured cake pan.
     
  3. Lightly flour prosphora seal and top of dough. Press seal firmly into dough.
     
  4. Let dough double in size.
     
  5. Take a toothpick and prick around the seal. Carefully remove seal.
     
  6. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes at 375 degrees.
     
  7. Remove bread and wrap in clean cloth or towel until cooled so crust will soften.