Bowl bread

Saturday morning I started the process of making bread. After mixing and kneading, I heated the oven slightly (turn it on, turn it off after a couple of minutes) and put the dough in the oven to rise.

A couple hours later, some other member of our household (who will remain nameless to protect the identity of the guilty), despite having been warned of the bread dough in the oven, started the oven (to preheat it) without removing the dough.

Fortunately (*very* fortunately), the dough was in a metal bowl. When we went to put the chicken in the oven, we discovered, to our horror, that the bread dough was still in there, and well on its way to being baked. An executive decision was made to continue baking the bread on an experimental basis.

The bread baked (although with such a large loaf - it was supposed to make at least 4 regular loaves - the center still wasn't quite done), and came out of the pan quite easily (I had coated it with oil before letting it rise).

And now, I give you:

Bowl bread! (cue mad scientist laughter in the background)
(not to be confused with a bread bowl)