Easy White Bread Recipe
A basic, delicious white bread recipe for sandwiches or toast.
Ingredients
- 2 cups warm water
- 1 Tablespoon yeast
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil or crisco
- 5 cups bread flour up to 6-7 cups if needed
Instructions
- Place water, yeast, and sugar in bowl.
- Add flour, oil, and salt. Mix on low speed til mostly mixed.
- Beat dough on medium speed until well mixed.
- If dough is still sticking to sides of bowl, stop the mixer and add one-half cup more flour. Continue adding flour until the dough comes together and sticks to the dough hook, and cleans the sides of the bowl.
- When dough is mixed, pour a couple spoonfuls of oil into teh bowl and swirl teh dough a time or two to coat teh dough with oil. Turn off teh mixer and let the dough rise til doubled.
- When dough is risen, divide in half and form each half into a loaf. Place teh loaves into greased bread pans and poke the loaves with a fork.
- Let loaves rise again, until about doubled. Preheat oven to 350.
- Bake loaves of bread at 350 for 30-35 minutes. When bread is baked, remove from pan, and cool on a wire rack. Brush tops of bread with butter while still hot.
- Place in tightly closed bread bags and store on counter or in freezer.
Notes
Baking times can vary depending on several factors, like altitude, humidity, and specific ovens. I bake my bread for 32 minutes, because I live at high altitude (7,400 ft), and at high altitude you must adjust.
Flour volumes can vary, depending on air moisture, etc. Start with 5 cups pf flour, add extra one-half cup at a time. You may need 6 or 6.5 cups of flour total. Stiff dough makes dry bread. You want soft dough!
You can substitute butter, lard, or crisco or any type of oil for the shortening.
Nutrition
Serving: 1sliceCalories: 147kcalCarbohydrates: 25gProtein: 4gFat: 3gSaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 234mgPotassium: 33mgFiber: 1gSugar: 3gCalcium: 5mgIron: 1mg
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