Bread was baked every day in most homes. Inevitable the bottom of the loaves would come out of the oven rather blackened so the bottom was sliced off! The oven recalls times when people had to be ...

A heavy duty baking surface, like a baking stone, is easy enough to come by ... Carefully take the Dutch oven out of the oven with mitts on. Remove the lid. Lift the bread up by the parchment ...