White Homemade Bread

This is great for people who haven't really made bread before. This tastes great and is just brilliant. Paul Hollywood is a master baker and this is his recipe.

Ingredients:

2 sachets of yeast
500 g white bread flour
40 g soft butter
2 tbs salt
300 ml tepid water (body temp)
1/4 cup of milk

Method:

1.  Pre -heat the oven to 220C and put the flour into a large mixing bowl and add the butter. Add the yeast at one side and the salt at the other side of the bowl. Stir to combine.

2. Add half the water and turn with your fingers until all the flour is gone from the bowl, add more water if needed and make into a soft dough, not sticky or soggy.

3. Spread some flour lightly on a work surface and turn out the dough to knead with the backs of your hands, and keep turning the dough and making sure you don't knock to much air out of it.

4. Grease a bread tin and  put the bread into the tin and cover with cling film to prove in a warm place for an hour or until doubled in size. Take out of the tin and knead again. Then put it back in the warm place for a further hour.

5. Sprinkle some flour onto the top of the bread and rub in lightly then score lines across the top of the bread  to create a diamond pattern and put in the oven to bake for about 30 minutes until the loaf has a crusty, crispy ,golden brown top.

6. To check that the bread is cooked tap the base it should sound hollow. Put on a wire cooling rack to cool.

Categories: Bread, Homemade white bread