White Bread

Bread, bread, bread....my kids love bread. My 13 year old Naim came up with his own food invention like sausage with chilli sauce and mustard wrapped in a slice, a slice spread with spaghetti sauce topped with chicken bologna and sprinkled with parmesan or mozarella cheese plus some italian herbs or just chicken bologna sandwich. My 10 year old Sarah loves it with peanut butter chocolate spread or garlic spread. My 5 year old Maryam with butter and sugar and 2 year old Iman just loves the plain white bread. We need to buy at least 3 jumbo packs of sandwich loaf in a week. After trying quite a number of  recipes, this one recipe is agreed by the whole family to be the best.

White Bread

Ingredients:

150ml water

70ml milk

2 tbsp butter, melted

1 egg

340g bread flour

60g cake flour

1/4 tsp bread improver

1 tsp salt

3 tbsp sugar

2 tsp dry active yeast
 

Glaze:

2 tbsp butter , melted

Method:

1. Mix and knead all of the dough ingredients — by hand, mixer, or bread machine(Program 10 on Kenwood)
2. If using hand, cover the dough, and let it rise for 1 to 2 hours, or until it's nearly doubled in bulk.
3. Gently deflate the dough and turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface. With floured hands, knead it for 2 minutes and roll it into a log shape. Place the dough into on a lightly greased or parchment-lined loaf pan, cover, and let rise for about an hour
4. Brush the dough with about half of the melted butter.
5. Bake it in a preheated oven at 170 degree Celsius for 15 to 18 minutes, until golden. Remove it from the oven, and brush with the remaining melted butter.
6. Cool the bread on a rack before cutting it into slices with bread knife.

 As no preservatives used in this bread, it is best to be consumed within 3 days max.