Italian Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 cups warm water
1 tablespoon yeast
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon salt
6 -8 cups unbleached flour

Preparation

Dissolve the sugar in the water, then sprinkle in the yeast, stir an wait 10 minutes.
Add the salt and 4 cups of flour and beat for three minutes.
Add in 2-3 more cups of flour, stir or knead.
Add more flour until you have enough to make a good stiff dough.
Knead until smooth and soft.
Grease a good sized bowl and turn the bread over in it, lightly greasing all sides.
Cover with plastic wrap.
Rise until doubled in a warm place.
Punch down and divide into three parts.
Knead each, return to bowl, cover again and let rise.
When doubled, pre-heat oven to 450 degrees.
Knead gently and shape the dough into three oblong shapes.
Place on a large, lightly greased baking sheet which has been sprinkled with corn meal Cover with a cloth and let rise until doubled.
Just before baking, score bread with a sharp knife very lightly down the middle then mist bread with water.
Turn the bread and mist every 5 minutes.
Bake 20 min or so or until the bread is golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped on the bottom.