In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt.
Add lukewarm water and mix with a spatula or blender until you get a coarse mixture. No more than one to two minutes in the blender, the goal is not to have a smooth dough to avoid kneading.
Place the dough in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let the dough rise between 2 and 3 hours, it should double in volume.
After 2 hours, flour the dough to prevent it sticking too much and fold the dough directly into the bowl to form a ball (you can add a little flour by turning the dough). Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for another two hours. You can skip the second rising step and go straight to the oven, but the bread is often denser.
At the end of the second rising, place the casserole dish in the oven and preheat the oven to 450 ⁰F. When the temperature is reached, let the casserole heat for another 10 minutes. During this time prepared to put in casserole your dough.
Sprinkle with flour and roll the dough into a ball on a square of sulphide paper, the corners of which you have cut so that nothing sticks out of the casserole dish.
Drop the bread into the casserole dish. WARNING!!! Be VERY careful to put on your oven mitts ... everything is extremely hot! Cover and put in the oven for 30 min at 450 ⁰F then remove the cover, lower the oven to 425 ⁰F and continue cooking for another 30 min.
There you go, a small, golden and crispy loaf. Let the loaf cool on a wire rack.
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