recipes to make bread - Bread Recipes You Need to Make Bread on Your Own

recipes to make bread

recipes to make bread

Making bread used to be a time consuming chore which many housewives did every single day using easy bread recipes. It involved making a dough mixture out of flour, sugar, yeast and some warm milk, then spreading flour out on the counter top, plopping the dough mixture out, and kneading it for what seemed like hours. Next the harried housewife would put the dough in a greased bowl, cover it, place it in a warm area, and wait for it to rise. This might be repeated depending on the type of bread she was making. Finally the dough would be kneaded once again and placed into greased bread pans and allowed to rise again. Finally, when the mixture had doubled in size, she would put the loaves into the oven and bake them for about an hour.

The fine art of bread making at home was resurrected when electric bread making machines came on the scene. These behemoths took up a large portion of the counter top in many kitchens but were a welcome addition as they considerably shortened the time it took to knead, rise, and bake a loaf of bread. And the end result was nearly as good. Recipes had to be converted for use in bread makers because they could only produce one loaf at a time. Many cooks chose to use their bread maker to knead the dough only, then remove it and finish the rising and baking on their own.

Most basic bread recipes include the following ingredients:

• four cups of flour (all purpose or bread flour); 

• one tablespoon of white sugar; 

• one half tablespoon of baking powder or one half tablespoon of baking soda; 

• one and a half cups of water; 

• two teaspoons of either white or cider vinegar.

This recipe does not include yeast and will not rise quite as high but still make a great loaf of bread when baked at four hundred degrees for about forty minutes.

Other simple recipes which include yeast follow below:

Ingredients for buttermilk bread:

• one cup of buttermilk; 

• one tablespoon of olive oil; 

• three tablespoons of honey; 

• one and a half teaspoons of salt; 

• one quarter teaspoon of baking soda; 

• three cups of bread flour or all purpose flour; 

• three teaspoons of instant dry active yeast.

Bake at three hundred fifty degrees for about forty minutes.

Another quick recipe is the one with ingredients below:

• two and one half cups of warm water; 

• one packet of dry yeast; 

• one ounce of honey or sugar; 

• two pounds of flour; 

• a pinch of salt.

This basic bread recipe calls for about fifty minutes of baking at three hundred seventy five degrees.

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