handmade bread

chanelle2

hi i have tried a recipe from youtube which was supposed to be simple which it was but it didn't taste anything like how i wanted to.

i want to make delicious bread (plain white bread) like the ones you get in the fresh bread section of tesco. or even like the long french baguette breads you get there. can i have a recipe please?

ragz_2

French bread is not really for beginners, it's quite a wet dough and needs careful handling. Normal white bread is achievable but you will probably not get the same texture as the supermarkets bakery bread as you're using a normal oven. There are tons of threads on here about breadmaking so try the search function or indexed collections.

Personally I use around 600g flour 150ml milk and roughly 150ml water, about 100ml of oil or 100g of butter and a teaspoon each of salt and sugar. With either easy bake yeast or normal dried yeast. Make dough, knead for 3-4 minutes, rise for a few hours in the bowl, knock back and rise again in the tin then bake for about half an hour. Unfortunately recipes can work differently depending on things like the temperature and humidity of your kitchen so you have to keep trying until you get it right for you, took me ages to work out what I was doing wrong and I am a very good cook!

Biggles

chanelle2 wrote: »

i want to make delicious bread (plain white bread) like the ones you get in the fresh bread section of tesco.

Yum, supermarket bread! But I guess there's no harm in setting your sights a bit low to begin with?
;-)

chanelle2

i didn't know people use milk in bread. what difference does it make to the recipe?

lol yea i should lower my standards but i have been making simple bread and want to move onto supermarket type (not kingsmill though) although yes i'd probably need an oven like theirs so similar would do.

Turkishdreamer

If I am making a white loaf (use BM) but assume the same would apply for hand, I always use 2 1/2 tbspns of skimmed milk powder. I was told it improves the texture of the bread and gives a crustier crust - it works for me!!!!!

Mrs_Jojo

I use the recipe from 'cheap family recipies' (google it) for homemade bread, no knead, takes less than 2 hours including rising time, I reckon it costs about 20p a loaf. Not like supermarket bread, rather nicer :-)

rinabean

Replace some (up to half I'd say) of the liquid in a recipe with oil, and make sure there's enough salt in it. That's what separates terrible homemade bread from the good stuff in my opinion

Biggles

chanelle2 wrote: »

lol yea i should lower my standards but i have been making simple bread and want to move onto supermarket type

I was actually meaning that if I thought I couldn't do any better than shop-bought bread, I wouldn't even start!

LJM

online at river cottage have a lot of easy bread mixes, if you want a mixed loaf which is also easy try googling the doris grant loaf i make this regularly by hand and it is lovely. doesn't keep well but that is not a problem in our house.

http://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/simple-white-loaf/

http://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/pdf/simple-white-loaf/

these are a couple if any use

LittleLauz

rinabean wrote: »

Replace some (up to half I'd say) of the liquid in a recipe with oil, and make sure there's enough salt in it. That's what separates terrible homemade bread from the good stuff in my opinion

Doesn't all that oil make it hugely calorific though!!!
I'm trying to be healthier by baking my own.