Italian Bread

Another successful recipe from this book. When my family arrived for dinner and smell bread they were hoping it was the Ciabetta recipe...when I stated I was trying the Italian recipe at first everyone was disappointed. The recipe as followed produced two good sized loaves. One loaf was eaten before dinner even started it was so delicious.
I followed the recipe as directed and would make this bread again. I would recommend a stand mixer due to the volume of dough.