Makes: 1 Basic White Bread Oven: 200 °C / 400 °F
Preparation Time: 1 hour 30 minutes Baking Time: 30 – 35 minutes
Nothing beats the smell of home-baked bread, try this bread recipe and you will never buy store-baked bread again.
Ingredients
| 500 | g | Cake flour ( 4 x 250 ml / 4 cups ) |
| 10 | ml | Salt ( 2 tsp ) |
| 5 | ml | Sugar ( 1 tsp ) |
| 10 | g | Anchor Instant Yeast ( 1 packet ) |
| 30 | g | Margarine ( 2 tbsp ) |
| 320 | ml | Lukewarm water ( ± 1⅓ cups ) |
Method
- Mix the cake flour, salt and sugar together. Add the margarine and rub into the flour with the fingertips.
- Add the Anchor Instant Yeast and mix. Add enough lukewarm water to the flour mixture to form a soft dough.
- Knead the dough until smooth and elastic, cover with greased plastic and leave to rest for 5 minutes.
- Knock the dough down, pat into a rectangle, making sure the width is the length of the bread pan.
- Roll the dough up and place seal towards the bottom into a greased 1.5-litre-bread pan OR shape into a shape of your choice and place on a greased baking tray.
- Cover with greased plastic and allow to rise in a warm place until double in volume, about 30 minutes.
- Brush with water and bake in a preheated oven at 200 °C / 400 °F for 30 – 35 minutes.
- Tap the top of the bread with the knuckles, a hollow sound indicates that the bread is baked.
