White Bread
Takes about 12 hours.
Ingredients
- 2 1/3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 3/4 cup water
- 2 1/3 tablespoons honey
- 3/4 teaspoon dry yeast
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup dry nonfat milk powder
- 3/4 teaspoon dry yeast
- 9 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
- 2 1/4 teaspoons salt
Method
- Whisk together 2 1/3 cups flour, water, honey, and 3/4 teaspoon yeast for about 2 minutes.
- In a separate bowl, mix together 2 1/4 cups flour, milk powder, and 3/4 teaspoon yeast.
- Sprinkle dry mixture on top of sponge.
- Cover and allow to ferment for 4 hours at room temperature.
- Using stand mixer with dough hook attachment, add butter to bowl and mix 1 minute on low speed.
- Cover and let rest 20 minutes.
- Sprinkle in salt and knead on medium speed for 10 minutes.
- Put dough in an oiled rising bowl.
- Cover and let rise until doubled (about 2 hours).
- On a floured surface, give dough two business letter turns.
- Put dough back in rising bowl, cover, and let rise until doubled (1 to 2 hours).
- On a floured surface, divide the dough into 2 and shape into loaves.
- Put dough in loaf pans.
- Cover and let rise (1 1/2 to 2 hours).
- Preheat oven to 350°F 45 minutes before baking.
- Bake until medium brown and loaf sounds hollow when tapped (about 1 hour).
- Remove pans from oven.
- Immediately remove loaves from pans and let cool on a wire rack.
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