Homemade bread is hearty, and inexpensive.
To create made in the home a bread loaf you will need the essential ingredients of flour, water, yeast, salt, and which size bread loaf tin you would like to use. This recipe will use the standard bread loaf tin, available in any five-and-dime.
For an easily done homespun bread loaf recipe you will need: 3/4 oz. dried active yeast, 2 cups warm water, 2 pounds bread flour, and 1 tbsp. salt. Have some extra flour nearby for dusting.
Immediately comes the mixing step. Mix your yeast in with your warm water until well dissolved. In a large bowl, mix the salt with most of the flour, but not all. Mix the water into circa one pound of the salted flour mixture. Mix well so it is well included, then add the excess of the salted flour mixture. Persist to mix until it is all well fused. You want the dough to be smooth, but not sticky. Keep on to knead the dough until this is reached. You should end up with an elastic very smooth dough. Persist in to add the flour mixture at a slow pace until this density has been reached, and the dough does not stick to the bowl.
Now you have to let the bread ferment. Mold your dough into a smooth ball, set it into a well greased bowl, and safeguard it with a clean towel. It should be set in a warm area to rise. You want your dough to be doubled in size, and when you jab it the dough does not spring back at you.
Straightaway remove the dough from the bowl, and roll it out onto a sparingly dusted cutting board, and roll out the excess gases. Determine how many bread loaf tins you will use, and mete out the dough apart accordingly. Cover with a clean lint free towel. Let settle for just a few minutes.
Then shape your dough to the close size and shape of your bread loaf tins. You do this by shaping and stretching the dough with your hands. Locate the dough in the bread loaf tin and one more time cover with a fresh towel to ferment some more. You want the dough to again double in size.
Now you are equipped to cook in oven. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Loaves, in a bread loaf tin, can take up to 30 minutes of bake time. You will know it is finished when it is an agreeable golden brown color, and when you hit lightly it, it sounds hollowed out. .
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