Put flour in a large glass bowl, put salt in one side and yeast in other side.
2
Use wooden spoon stir with water and oil until become a soft dough.
3
Grease table top with olive oil and knead the dough until smooth. If too sticky, then add a little of flour at the time but the dough should be moist and smooth.
4
Grease the same large bowl with olive oil and put the dough in the bowl. Cover with clear film. Then put the bowl in a room temperature area.
5
4 hours later, the dough should rise up to the top, if not, wait a little longer until the dough rise up.
6
Knock back the dough and turn the dough on the slightly floured surface. Knead the dough for 5 minutes. Divide the dough in eight small doughs. Roll each small dough into a long strip about 40cm in length.
7
Put all the top of eight striped dough together, from left to right, name the strip from 1 to 8. Every time you move and strip it will take the new number of its position. Start plait from the top, 1) place 8 under 7 and over 1 2) place 8 over 5 3) place 2 under 3 and over 8 4) place 1 over 4 5) place 7 under 6 and over 1 Repeats step 2-5 until all the dough is plaited.
8
Tuck both ends of the dough underneath to give a tidy finish.
9
Lay the plaited dough on a floured baking tray and prove for another hour until the dough risen double in size.
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Preheat the fan oven to 200C.
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Brush the plaited dough with milk and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes.