Easy White Bread

After trying my hand at Linda’s bread recipe, I quickly set off scouring the internet for bread recipes and soon realised that I should start with the easy recipes, which resulted in a lot very similar recipes so it was pot luck and I settled on one that I found on NibbleDish and landed up changing it completely!  Not sure if it was the right thing to do but the loaf turned out very nicely and I will definitely be making it again.

Amended from NibbleDish

Ingredients

4 cups flour
10g packet instant yeast
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp oil
1 cup water
¼ cup milk

1 egg beaten for egg wash

Method

1. Mix 3 cups of the flour with the yeast, sugar and salt.
2. Add the oil.
3. Combine the water and milk and heat until warm.
4. Add the warm liquid to the dry ingredients and mix together.
5. Using the 4th cup of flour, flour a work surface and turn out the dough.
6. Knead the dough, adding more of the 4th cup of flour as needed, kneading for 10 minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic.
7. Place the dough in a bowl, cover with a tea towel and leave somewhere warm to rise until it has doubled in size.
8. Once risen, punch the dough down and tip out onto the counter and gently roll it out into a rectangle approximately 18cm X 30cm.
9. Roll it up, tuck in the ends, and place it into a greased loaf tin.
10. Cover and let rise again until doubled in size.
11. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
12. Once risen, brush the top with a bit of egg wash and bake for approximately 25 -30 minutes until the loaf is golden brown and sounds hollow when you tap it.
13. Remove the bread from the pan immediately and place on a rack to cool.

While the bread was still warm, I made myself as super yummy meatball sarmie.

This bread also makes lovely toast.