Easy Homemade Bread

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Delicious warm homemade bread is so easy to make. A perfect additional to your next family dinner. Make your own bread for sandwiches. Great with mashed potatoes and gravy over toast or roast beef sandwiches with gravy. So many great dishes can be made with fresh bread. Breakfast just got taken up a note with fresh toast.

Makes two loaves of bread.

Ingredients:

4 1/2 cups of flour
3/4 cup scalded milk
3/4 cups cold water
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 package active dry yeast
1 stick melted butter
olive oil

Making Bread

Instructions:

In a mixing bowl, add the milk and water, sugar, yeast, salt & egg.

Use a dough hook for the entire mixing or start with a paddle (you can also hand mix too).

Once mixed, slowly add about half the flour, and then the melted butter.

Add the remaining amount of flour and mix until it starts to pull from the bowl.

In a separate bowl add about 2 teaspoons olive oil and place dough into bowl.

Cover with plastic wrap and towel and allow to rise until it doubles in size, punch down and cover again.

Allow the dough to rise again and then cut in half, cutting into 2 pieces to make bread.

Preheat oven to 375F.

Take half of the dough and form to fit the bread pan.

Spray the pan with non-stick spray and place dough in the pan.

Allow to rise and then bake for 25-30 minutes, until golden brown.

Put a little melted butter on top of the bread while it’s warm.

Baking Tips

It’s important to spray the pan so that the bread come out easily
You could also grease the pan with butter
If you want to freeze the other pan of cinnamon rolls, do not use a glass pan
The more cinnamon you use, the bigger the cinnamon taste
You can add nuts into the spread if you would like, walnut and pecan pieces work well
Don’t rush the baking or rising, you want them light and fluffy, not bricks
Homemade cinnamon rolls make great gifts for the holidays and house warming
Make fresh French Toast