"Keep calm and bake on!"
That's what we did during Typhoon Trami and there's nothing like the smell of fresh homemade bread in the home...can you smell it now? Happiness!
A lot of work went into this lovely loaf of bread. I mixed all the ingredients together and then my youngest got to work kneading it. He did a great job! I usually put it in my kitchen aid and let that do the work, but the bread came out dense. My 7yr. old wanted to help knead it so I should him how and he ended up giving it a few too many punches and then folding. It turned out to be a great method!!
It wore him out a little bit and he had fun! Plus the dough came out nice and soft and rose perfectly!!
So glad my kids love to help out in the kitchen. I certainly love teaching them the importance of cooking!!
They love love this bread and I love that they love it!
Happiness is definitely homemade!
I've been using King Arthur's Bread Flour and it's been great....
*This recipe is for a bread machine. I don't have a bread machine, so I do it a little differently. If you have a bread machine then add it all together in the machine and press start. If you don't follow my directions.
Easy Sandwich Bread
Ingredients:
- 1 cup lukewarm water
- 1/3 cup lukewarm milk
- 3 tbsp. butter
- 3 3/4 cup bread flour
- 3 tbsp. sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 tsp. active dry yeast or instant yeast
Directions:
- Put lukewarm water in your mixing bowl and add sugar and instant yeast. Let it rest for 5mins.
- It should be foamy and bubbly, add the rest of the ingredients and mix together.
- Knead it for 10-12mins until nice and soft.
- Oil a loaf pan and shape the dough for the pan.
- Let it rise for 1 hr. and don't forget to set your oven at 350 degrees.
For the small 1lb. loaf use this...
- 2/3 cup lukewarm water
- 1/4 lukewarm milk
- 2 T butter or I like avocado oil
- 2 1/2 cups bread flour
- 5 tsp. sugar
- 1 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1tsp. active dry yeast or instant yeast
- I let it rise for 2.5 hrs. I turn the oven on about the last 30 mins of the rising time to 350 deg. and then bake for 33 mins in a glass baking dish.
- After it's done rising put into the oven for 40-45mins until golden brown.....
Let it cool and enjoy with some fresh butter and smile :)
