Using What You Have: Homemade Bread

Printed: by Crystal Paine on September 16, 2022  |  This publish could include affiliate hyperlinks. Learn my disclosure coverage right here.

Welcome to my common publish sharing artistic methods I’m making do with what we have now. I usually share a majority of these issues on Instagram tales, however I do know a whole lot of you don’t have Instagram or don’t examine it repeatedly, so I’m transcribing a few of my weekly tales into weblog posts to offer you inspiration and encouragement for tactics you can also make do and use what you could have.

In case you’ve been round right here for awhile, you realize that I used to bake bread on a regular basis. Effectively, really, my bread machine did many of the work — I might simply dump the elements in and let it do the work of turning them into a stupendous dough. After which I’d form it right into a loaf, let it rise in a bread pan, and bake it.

(Aspect observe: I usually get requested why I don’t bake bread in my bread machine. You completely can and I’ve generally, I simply suppose it’s softer and has a softer crust for those who bake it within the oven.)

Prior to now few years, I hadn’t baked bread as a lot as a result of I’d been discovering so many nice offers and markdowns on complete wheat/complete grain bread. I might simply purchase further loaves when I discovered a very good sale and we all the time had some within the freezer.

However just lately, I haven’t discovered as many good markdowns on bread and I had really gotten to the very finish of my freezer bread stash. And I knew it was time to tug out the bread machine and make some do-it-yourself bread!

That is the do-it-yourself bread recipe we’ve used for years. A web based pal shared it on her weblog (that’s now not on-line) and I made some tweaks and it grew to become a favourite.

I really like that — because of the bread machine — you may have a loaf of bread dough able to go within the oven in simply and hour and a half! And also you often solely spend about 5 minutes complete to make it occur because the machine does the give you the results you want!

It was so fantastic to have the odor of recent baked bread wafting by our home once more! Actually, it impressed me to attempt my hand at baking Artisan Bread once more — one thing I had tried years in the past and flopped. Keep tuned for my publish on that, hopefully subsequent week!

Psst! Listed here are a few of my different favourite bread recipes.