From: Susan
Preheat: don't - see below
2 cups hot water
1 pkg yeast
1 T. salt
1 T. sugar
5 cups white flour + 1 cup
Mix all ingreds with 5 cups of flour.
Dump out on kneading surface on top of 1 more cup of flour and knead that cup of flour into the dough.
Knead.
Let rise till fills bowl, about 30-40 minutes.
Cut in half.
Spray cookie sheet with pam and sprinkle corn meal lightly onto sheet.
Pull each half into loaf shape and lay onto cookie sheet.
Put slash marks into each with kitchen scissors.
Let sit out on counter for 10 minutes uncovered.
Put in cold oven and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.