Home Made Bread Recipe. Day 28 Extention.

Decided to make bread today to go along with the Avocado Grilled Cheese Sandwiches I’ll be making for dinner.  Here’s how I did it:

Ingredients:

• 1 3/4 cups water
• 3 Tbsp butter
• 1/3 cups brown sugar
• 1 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 1/4 tsp yeast
• 4 cups flour

Directions:

On your lowest burner setting, warm up the water, butter, honey and salt until butter is completely melted.  While you are waiting on the butter to melt, in a large bowl combine two cups all purpose flour and the yeast.  After your liquid is heated, add it to the dry mixture and mix with a wooden spoon until all ingredients are moistened. 

Add  1/2 cup flour and mix in with wooden spoon until you have added 3 1/2 cups of flour.  The dough should pull away from the sides of the bowl.  Once dough pulls away, begin mixing in flour with your hands until it is all worked into the dough.  Add one more 1/2 cup of flour and work into dough mixture. 

After everything is mixed into a big dough ball, remove the dough from the bowl. Lightly grease the bowl.  Place the dough back in the bowl.  Cover bowl with a town and let rise for 90 minutes.  After 90 minutes, the dough should have doubled in size.

While dough is rising, prepare a lightly floured area.  After 90 minutes, move the dough to the floured area and press the air out of the dough while forming into a loaf.  Then place the dough into a lightly greased loaf pan.  Cover the pan with plastic wrap and let sit for another 30 minutes. 

After 30 minutes, remove plastic wrap and place in oven for 30 minutes.  Remove after 30 minutes and cover in aluminum foil.  Return to oven for 10 more minutes.  After 10 minutes, bread should be golden and warm.  Allow cooling before slicing.