This is for all of you that can't bake squat. Follow the instructions exactly and look like Better Crocker. Remember baking is a science. It's not like stove top where you can just "wing it".
1 & 1/4 cup warm water (100 to 115 degrees)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon active dry yeast
2 tablespoons good quality mayonaise
3 cups bread flour
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 tablespoons of butter
In a bowl, pour the warm water and the sugar. Mix until dissolved. Add the yeast. Again, mix until dissolved. Set it aside for 10 minutes. When you come back it should have bubbles formed all over the top of it.
in mixing bowl add flour and the salt. Then, slice up the butter into smaller pieces and add it. Add the mayonaise. Mix the ingredients together for about 10 minutes by hand, about 5 minutes with a mixer. You can usually tell it’s done when it will hold some sort of shape in a ball
Place dough in a bowl that you have sprayed with cooking spray. Drizzle some olive oil on it and flip a few times. Cover it with some plastic wrap that you have sprayed with cooking spray or rubbed with some oil. Set the bowl in a warm place. Allow it to rise for one hour.
After an hour uncover the dough. It should be pretty big and poofy at this point. Take your hand and punch into it once or twice to get it to push all the air out of it. Knead it again on a counter or cutting board using flower to keep it from sticking. At this point you want to put it in the shape you want. I have loaf proofing trays that are similar to the trays you see at Subway that allows them to maintain a tubular shape through baking.
Allow the Dough to rise for another hour
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Put a small tray of water in the oven to add moisture. Put dough in oven for 37 mintues (exactly).
Prepare for a religeous experience. Don't disgrace this bread with margerine, use only real butter or dipping oils to eat this with.
Note: If you get heartburn from eating bread homemade bread made with these clean ingredients may not upset your stomach. I don't have personal experience with this but I have a friend who can eat this bread all day that would get heartburn from bread that comes from the store.
Note: You can cut the fat down even further by omitting the mayonise. This bread will be slightly less fluffy, more of a french bread kind of thing.
1 & 1/4 cup warm water (100 to 115 degrees)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon active dry yeast
2 tablespoons good quality mayonaise
3 cups bread flour
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 tablespoons of butter
In a bowl, pour the warm water and the sugar. Mix until dissolved. Add the yeast. Again, mix until dissolved. Set it aside for 10 minutes. When you come back it should have bubbles formed all over the top of it.
in mixing bowl add flour and the salt. Then, slice up the butter into smaller pieces and add it. Add the mayonaise. Mix the ingredients together for about 10 minutes by hand, about 5 minutes with a mixer. You can usually tell it’s done when it will hold some sort of shape in a ball
Place dough in a bowl that you have sprayed with cooking spray. Drizzle some olive oil on it and flip a few times. Cover it with some plastic wrap that you have sprayed with cooking spray or rubbed with some oil. Set the bowl in a warm place. Allow it to rise for one hour.
After an hour uncover the dough. It should be pretty big and poofy at this point. Take your hand and punch into it once or twice to get it to push all the air out of it. Knead it again on a counter or cutting board using flower to keep it from sticking. At this point you want to put it in the shape you want. I have loaf proofing trays that are similar to the trays you see at Subway that allows them to maintain a tubular shape through baking.
Allow the Dough to rise for another hour
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Put a small tray of water in the oven to add moisture. Put dough in oven for 37 mintues (exactly).
Prepare for a religeous experience. Don't disgrace this bread with margerine, use only real butter or dipping oils to eat this with.
Note: If you get heartburn from eating bread homemade bread made with these clean ingredients may not upset your stomach. I don't have personal experience with this but I have a friend who can eat this bread all day that would get heartburn from bread that comes from the store.
Note: You can cut the fat down even further by omitting the mayonise. This bread will be slightly less fluffy, more of a french bread kind of thing.
well then. You're my new baking hero.
