Comments on: White Bread, Basic

By: All About Cake Pans

All About Cake Pans — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:22:53 +0000

I know it’s not healthy, but I’m a big fan of white bread. I have to say that this recipe looks delicious, or at least the very fist picture of the slices. I’ve never baked bread, just cakes and other pastries, but I think I’ll give this recipe a shot and hopefully it turns out okay.

By: Caanan

Caanan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:32:38 +0000

I love to bake bread, and am just waiting to get caught up on work so I can try this recipe.

However, I do have a bit of a problem. My husband doesn’t like this kind of bread for sandwiches. He says it’s too dense or something like that. I would love to stop buying bread in the store, but what can I do?

By: Melanie

Melanie — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:10:42 +0000

mmm… I love home-made bread, though I rarely do it nowadays as I work for a craft bakery, and get a generous staff discount!

Nutritionally-speaking, your recipe is probably a bigger step-up than you think, Heather – mass-produced bread can be pretty dire: Andrew Whitley, a British baker & writer has some very interesting things to say on the matter (see http://www.breadmatters.com/advocacy).

Happy baking, all!

Melanie

By: Badbadivy

Badbadivy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:51:04 +0000

Here are a couple of links that should help:

http://www.home-ec101.com/bread-making-meet-the-yeast/

http://www.home-ec101.com/bread-making-rising-to-the-occasion/

By: Badbadivy

Badbadivy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:49:09 +0000

There are a lot of things that can cause bread not to rise- the yeast could be too old, the temp of the place you’re rising the bread could be not warm enough, or you could be over-kneading or under-kneading the bread. Good luck with your next batch, I know it can be tough to get exactly right!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:48:18 +0000

I made the bread and it failed…it didn’t rise very well. Maybe I beat it up too much.

Tomorrow its my wife’s turn. She said she will show me how it’s done.

By: Diaper Cakes Becca

Diaper Cakes Becca — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:15:51 +0000

I made the bread (two loaves)….and my husband and kiddos LOVED it. I think I may have started a new Sunday Brunch tradition.

Thank you for posting this no-nonsense recipe!!!!

By: CJ

CJ — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:07:51 +0000

When I’m in need of more time (almost always) we use our bread machine to do the mixing, kneading too. Then shape the loaves and bake in the oven. I like the results better than when baked in the machine,

When I do have time to indulge, I LOVE to make bread, kneading with my hands. There’s something very zen and satisfying about kneading dough and seeing the dough change textures in the process.

Either way, the house smells fabulous and the omemeade bread is sooooo good!

Thanks for the great post and pics!

By: Diaper Cakes Becca

Diaper Cakes Becca — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:28:48 +0000

I am making this tomorrow morning…..and plan to serve my family fresh bread with strawberry jam (homemade last fall) for brunch!!

I can’t wait…..

By: J Wynia

J Wynia — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:58:03 +0000

I really like making simple breads like this to go with homemade soup. In fact, that’s actually our traditional Christmas Eve dinner at our house.

We use a bread machine, but not to do the baking, just to mix and knead, using the dough cycle. Lets you make the more traditionally shaped loaves or rolls instead of that strange bread machine shape.

It’s worth noting that, while it’s unlikely to last long (warm homemade bread tends to disappear around here), if you *do* have leftovers, they are missing the preservatives found in store-bought bread as well as things like corn syrup. That means that mold will show up far sooner than you may be used to if you’ve only ever had store-bought.