Another homemade bread recipe

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Leah from What If It Is Today left a comment that I wanted to make sure everyone read – another recipe for homemade bread.

My recipe and directions are even easier. We make bread almost every day.

3 cups flour, 1 1/2 cups water, 3/4 teaspoon salt, 3/4 teaspoon yeast. Mix and add more water if you can’t mix it with a spoon. You don’t have to dissolve the yeast, just mix all four ingredients together. I cover the bowl with a cloth towel. I’ll let it sit for anywhere from two hours to over night to a week (if you keep it for a week make sure you cover the batter with water each day so you don’t get a hard crust). When it sits longer it becomes “sourdough”. When you are ready to make your bread you put a cup or two of flour on the counter. Dump the dough on it and keep turning the dough over the flour until it isn’t sticky. The harder you work the dough the finer the bread (as compared to a heavier loaf). Shape the dough and put it into whatever kind of pan you are cooking it in, whether it’s a dutch oven, a bread pan, or a flat baking sheet. Let sit for at least 30 minutes then put it into the oven to bake. If you bake it at the higher temperature the heat will make the loaf rise quickly.

You can do whatever you want to this loaf and you can’t mess it up. Add sugar, eggs, cinnamon and raisins, garlic and italian seasoning, whatever you feel like. It all works.

Thanks Leah – I am going to try this out tonight!

Rourke