I want to make bread...

[Mother Goose]

... 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!

[Alan]

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

[Kazbah]

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:

1. Crumble yeast into a small basin
2. add sugar and 3 tablespoons of tepid water and mix to a cream
3. Cover and stand in a warm place for ten minutes
4. Sift flour into a warmed bowl. Stand in a warm place until yeast is ready.
5. Make a well in the centre and sprinkle salt round edge of flour
6. Pour yeast into well, add water and mix into a soft dough
7. Turn onto a lightly floured board and knead well
8. 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.
9. Turn out and knead again.
10. Divide into two and mould into loaves
11. Place in greased tins.
12. Cover and set aside again in a warm place to prove.
13. When loaves are doubled in size place in a hot oven (240deg C)
14. After ten minutes reduce heat to 180degC. Bake for 30-40 minutes
15. 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!