Monday, November 24, 2008

Homemade Bread

This bread is made with yeast. I got this recipe in a booklet a few years ago and have been using this recipe ever since. The booklet is falling apart already. There are quite a few yeast recipes in it and I will post more of these recipes in future.
This can either be made white or brown.

Ingredients

4 c cake flour
2 sachets instant yeast
1 T salt
3 T sugar
1 egg
75 ml sunflower oil
625 ml lukewarm water
4 c of additional flour (for brown bread use Nutty Wheat)

Method

Mix all the ingredients except additional flour together.
Add additional flour and knead the dough until smooth and elastic.
Place dough in a bowl sprinkled with flour.
Place bowl in a plastic shopping bag and close the bag.
Leave to prove for 1 1/2 hours until dough has doubled in size.
Knead again. Divide dough in two and place in two greased loaf tins.
Leave uncovered for approximately 45 minutes and allow to double in size.
Bake at 160 degrees C for 30 minutes.
There are few things as good as homemade bread.

Naomi

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