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Ingredients

• 1½ cups tepid water
• 5 tablespoons superfine sugar
• 3 tablespoons canola oil (or other lightly flavoured cooking oil - I use rice bran oil)
• dried yeast (1 sachet)
• 1 large egg (free-range - beaten)
• 1 tablespoon malt powder
• 4½ cups bread flour (or other unbleached, white flour such as tipo '00')
• ½ cup poppy seeds (or sesame seeds)
• 6 water (for poaching)
• ⅓ cup honey
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt (optional - the authentic recipe calls for no salt, but a little does work nicely in the end result)