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I want to make bread...
... but can't find a receipe anywhere! Can someone help me? I've tried the Taste website but it came up with a million receipes involving bread, a few on raisin bread, one on sour dough, but nothing on good old fashioned bread! Can anyone help me? Preferably an easy one!!!!
TIA
MG
P.S. I don't have a bread machine, I want to do it from scratch!
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600g Bakers Flour
2 tsp Yeast
1 Tsp Salt
2 Tsp Sugar
1 Tblsp Oil
420 mls Warm Water
Sift all dry ingredients together. Add water and oil and kneed well
Cover with a damp tea towel and leave in a warm place for about 30 mins.
Kneed again for about 5 mins
Cover with damp tea towel
Bake at 200 for aprox 45 mins. When it is cooked it should sound hollow when you knock on it
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From my "Day to Day Cookery" schoolbook ...
- 4 cups (500g) flour
- 15g compressed yeast
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- Tepid water
- 1 teaspoon sugar
Method:
- Crumble yeast into a small basin
- add sugar and 3 tablespoons of tepid water and mix to a cream
- Cover and stand in a warm place for ten minutes
- Sift flour into a warmed bowl. Stand in a warm place until yeast is ready.
- Make a well in the centre and sprinkle salt round edge of flour
- Pour yeast into well, add water and mix into a soft dough
- Turn onto a lightly floured board and knead well
- Place in a greased bowl smooth side up, cut a cross in the top, cover and set aside in a warm place to rise to double in size.
- Turn out and knead again.
- Divide into two and mould into loaves
- Place in greased tins.
- Cover and set aside again in a warm place to prove.
- When loaves are doubled in size place in a hot oven (240deg C)
- After ten minutes reduce heat to 180degC. Bake for 30-40 minutes
- Turn out and cool on a wire cooler.
For Brown bread, make as for white bread but use 2 cups flour and 2 cups fine wholemeal.
I used to make this years ago, and it worked for a teenager!