Recipe Old Fashioned White Bread
You will need more flour closer to 8 cups and it will make a softer less coarse bread opt.
Recipe old fashioned white bread. And all of that history makes this old fashioned homemade bread the best. Grease pan of bread maker with 1 tsp butter. Add shortening and half the flour.
And it is a very basic homemade white bread recipe. Step 2 gradually add about 4 cups flour kneading until smooth. Mine takes 3 hours 55 minutes.
Salt 6 7 cups unbleached ground white wheat flour you can use regular all purpose flour with success as well. 2 packets dry active yeast. 3 quarts 12 cups bread flour.
3 cups luke warm water 1 4 cup sugar 1 1 2 tbsp. In a large bowl combine warm water yeast salt oil sugar and 4 cups flour. Old fashioned white bread makes two 9 by 5 inch loaves ingredients.
Heat liquids to about 100 deg f about one min in microwave then add to bread maker pan. And so on and so forth. Mix in the sugar and honey and stir to dissolve.
Gently brush the egg wash onto the tops of both loaves right before placing in the oven. This is the most solid tried and true bread recipe i know of. Let rise in warm place free from draft until doubled in bulk about 45 minutes.