White Bread




Ingredients

1 ½ cups bread flour(all purpose flour)
1 tsp dry yeast
¼ cup sugar
1 tsp salt
1 Tbsp honey
½ cup milk
1 egg
4 oz softened butter

Method
In a small vessel take yeast, 2tsp of sugar and little warm water, mix all together. Keep it aside by covering for 10 minutes.

In a bowl mix the soft butter, sugar, honey, and milk. To this add the egg and mix all well.

In a bowl take the flour, yeast mixture and milk and butter mixture. Add the salt. Knead the flour to make nice dough like chapatti dough. Knead it for roughly 3 minutes, until it takes on a smooth, shiny appearance. Place it into the oiled bowl and cover it with a towel. Let it rise, for 1 hour until it has doubled in volume.

After 1 hour take a bread loaf pan and grease it with oil. Put some flour and make a coating so that the bread should not stick to the pan. Again knead the dough and put it in the pan and make the shape of pan. Keep it for half an hour. To avoid dryness cover it with a plastic bag. After ½ an hour the dough will be rise again.

Preheat the oven to350 F.

TIP! You can also place the bread into the fridge to sit overnight, to bring out a fuller, nuttier flavor!

Before placing the bread in the oven, sprinkle a little flour over the risen dough. Spray the sides of the oven with a little water, to create steam which in turn will create a lovely crust and let it bake for 45 minutes. During cooking, rotate the bread once in order to ensure even browning and enjoy the smell of freshly baking bread, as it bakes.

At the end of the baking time, remove the bread from the oven. Take it out of the loaf pan, using a cloth to protect your hands from the hot bread and firmly tap all along the bottom of the loaf, to check to see if it's fully baked. If it has a hollow sound, it is done. Place it onto a rack to completely cool.

Now it has cooled, it is ready to serve! Nothing beats the taste of freshly baked bread, so enjoy it right now with lashings of butter!

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