Ciabatta

1 cup water

1/4 teaspoon instant active (not rapid rise) yeast

Mix together the ingredients and let them rest overnight in a covered bowl at

room temp.

Dough:

Sponge

1 teaspoon yeast

1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

1 1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp. sugar

1/4 cup water plus enough olive oil to

1/3 cup liquid

Make this very wet dough in the bread machine. It should be between a batter

2 ciabatta - long, rough ovals about 4 x

inches. Form on oiled baking sheet. Let rise til light and bubbly, using

your fingers topoke indentations in the dough all over aobut 1 1/5 way through

the rising period. Bake in a preheated 450 oven spraying with water once or 9or add ice cubes to bottom of oven

25 minutes,

then cool in turned off oven with door cracked open. Dust with flour.