Simple Homemade White Bread
A delicious old-fashioned white bread recipe just like Grandma used to make!
Servings 12 slices
Calories 115kcal
Ingredients
- 1 package dry yeast about 2 1/4 teaspoons
- 1 cup warm water about 30-40 seconds in the microwave is perfect
- 3 cups bread flour if you can't find this go ahead and use all-purpose
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tsp honey
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix the honey and warm water together, add the yeast and stir until dissolved.
- Add 2 1/2 cups of the flour and the salt to the yeast mixture.
- Stir until you get a ball of dough. The dough will be soft.
- ---all of these parts are super handy to do if you have a mixer!
- Put the dough on a floured surface. Knead until smooth and stretchy (about 9 minutes) adding in the remaining flour as needed to keep the dough from becoming too sticky.
- ---if you have a mixer with a dough hook...use it here!
- Place the dough in a bowl sprayed with cooking spray or coated with oil.
- Put the bowl in a warm place and cover with a towel (or use my warm water in bowl method above :)) or plastic wrap sprayed with cooking spray.
- Let the dough rise until doubled in size. (about 45 minutes)
- Punch your down and then cover and wait 5 minutes.
- Gently shape the dough into a loaf.
- Place in loaf pan coated with spray, butter, shortening.
- Cover (again with a towel or sprayed plastic wrap) and let rise until doubled again (about 45 minutes)
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C)
- Bake at 450 degrees for about 20 minutes.
- if you like...apply a egg or milk wash before baking.
Nutrition
Calories: 115kcal | Carbohydrates: 23g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 196mg | Potassium: 31mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Calcium: 5mg | Iron: 1mg