Prep time
30 mins of work
3 hrs for proofing
Cook time
35 mins
Serves
Makes a loaf of bread
This was a fun one that little man and I found on Instagram and decided to give it a go. A decidedly easy bread to make, low ingredients… perfect if you’re doing chores at home on a rainy day (because of the dough proofing time mostly).
What do you need?
Quick tip: for best results when baking bread use weight measurements versus cups/spoons. I didn’t have a kitchen scale when I first made this so I’ve added those measurements which work out pretty alright.
- 500g (or about 4 cups) of bread flour
- 350g (or about 1.5 cups) of room temp water
- 10g (or about 1 and 3/4 tsp) of salt
- 7g (or about 2 and 1/4 tsp) instant yeast
What do you do?
- Preheat your oven to 200 degrees Celsius (or about 395 Fahrenheit).
- In a bowl, mix all ingredients into a shaggy dough, remove from bowl and knead for 5 to 10 minutes to shape it into a smooth ball.
- Put some oil and rub it around the bowl, then return your dough to the bowl and cover until it doubles in size (about 1.5 hours, but really look for it to double, could take more or less time).
- Once doubled, remove dough from bowl and knead into a rectangle shape.
- Loosely roll it into a sausage, tucking in the corners as it goes.
- Rub some oil around a loaf tin, pop that sausage dough into it, cover and let sit until it doubles in size (dust it with some flour if you wanna be fancy) this can take about 30 minutes to an hour (again, keep an eye on it; don’t let it rise too much)
- Once doubled, score the loaf down the middle with a knife for style and toss in the oven for 30 minutes. Add a pan with some water in it to the bottom rack to keep the bread from drying out.
- Remove after 30 minutes, take the loaf out of the tin and put back in the oven (directly on the rack) to let finish for another 5 minutes or so (this gives you a nice crust all around the bread).
- Remove from oven and let sit for 30 minutes.
And you’re done… once you turn the oven off and clean things.