HOW TO MAKE BREAD // STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS // USING ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR //

Hello guys, welcome back to my channel. In today's video we are going to

make

homemade

bread

. I love homemade

bread

and it's easier than you think and I know it's really intimidating trying to

make

homemade bread so I'm going to walk you through it

step

by

step

. step by step and I'll show you how I learned to make bread and I have to give credit to my mom because she made homemade bread every week, sometimes several times a week. I remember walking through the school door and always having the house smell fresh. homemade bread and I loved it, if anyone can find a candle that smells like homemade bread, I will be the first buyer of it, but anyway I am very grateful for what she taught me and I will teach them the way she taught me. step by step, so let's go, okay, this is the yeast that I really like.

You can get a big pack at Costco or Sam's Club, but I love it. It will last you forever. What I actually do is I pour this into a container like Sorry it's noisy and I actually keep it in the freezer so it seems like I'm almost out of it I need to refill it but if you take the yeast you put it in a container like this and you store it in the freezer, it will stay. good forever, at least a couple of years, but it doesn't harm the yeast, it doesn't do anything, it just preserves its life, so that's my favorite type of yeast and you need the active dry yeast, okay?

What we're going to do is we're going to get warm water, so think of it like the warm bath water is the temperature that you want and we're going to have four cups, okay, a little bit warmer, okay, go ahead and have four cups, OK? you get your four cups of warm water you want to get two tablespoons make sure there are no little clumps in there one two now here's the trick if you want your yeast to bloom or get foamy get some sugar sprinkle some sugar in there with that will help to get the yeast really nice and foamy, but it won't change the flavor of any part of the bread or anything like that, it just helps this yeast, so make sure you mix that yeast so that this quartz or granite or marble countertops They are very cold so if you want the yeast to get foamy it needs to be kept warm so I put mine on one of these cutting boards or you can put anything on the stove or on a table in the sun that will help or prevent it. so it doesn't cool down and then go ahead and cover it, you can use a towel, a plate, whatever you need, cover it, set the timer for 10 minutes, okay, it's been 10 minutes now, the yeast is nice and foamy, it has a coating of foam on top I'm going to press, go ahead and add that to our mixer.

You don't need to have a big, fancy mixer. You can mix this by hand, but I will say that I love this Bosch one. My mom had hers for 35 years and it's still going strong. I love them, but you really don't need to have a fancy mixer. If you mix by hand you'll get the same result, so go ahead and add them to your blender and then we'll add a tablespoon of salt and this is the Himalayan rose. salt and I really love it, so you're going to add 1 3 cup canola oil. Okay, now this recipe calls for honey and a little trick is to put the honey after the oil like that because I need a third of a cup of honey. if you put it in the same measuring cup it won't stick to the cup it will just spill out so 1 3 cup honey this is literally the thickest honey so we'll add our

flour

so it requires 10 to 12 cups but we want to add about half so let's go ahead and add about 5 cups of

flour

.

Okay, now let's go ahead and mix this up. Okay, now we have about five more cups of flour to add, but what I want you to do is add one cup at a time, so there's one, two, three, so now look, if you look, it's still like a shaggy dough. , it's still very sticky. Let's go ahead and add another cup, that'll be four. I'm going to keep mixing this because it's not completely mixed yet, but I don't know if we're going to need that last cup, we probably will, but let's go ahead and mix this a little more, okay, now what you're looking for is for the dough to come together.

Peel off the sides of the bowl and that's what you've done, it's not sticking to the bowl or anything, it's still a little sticky. to the touch, but not where it sticks to my fingers, so I think we're good at this point, so that's what you want to see, just make sure it doesn't stick to the sides of the bowl, it doesn't stick to your fingers and so. it means it's ready to knead, okay, now we're just going to take it out of the bowl. You can smear a little flour on your hands while removing it from the bowl so it doesn't stick.

Now you're just going to knead. bread dough for about five to eight minutes is a good exercise for your arms, so you just want it to look like this, where it's not at all sticky, it's not sticking to your hands, but you've worked, you've been kneading it for about Five to eight minutes or so and it looks like this, okay, now we want to grow it until it's doubled in size, so grab a bowl, a nice big bowl because it's going to expand, spray it with cooking spray and then spray the top top with cooking spray you will cover it with a towel and then it will double in size so it usually lasts about 30 to 45 minutes so it has been sitting for about 45 minutes and as you can see it has definitely doubled in size this It should look good, this is my favorite part, so it's nice and big, and what you have to do is just hit it and get rid of all those air bubbles, if you've had a stressful day, go ahead and take it out on your dough, okay? and then take it out, place it on your counter while it sits for a minute.

I'm going to prepare my molds to prepare three lobes of bread. All you need to do is spray your molds with cooking spray. Make sure all sides are good. I'm going to lightly flour the surface again and just knead the dough just to get rid of any air that was there. Now I'm just going to divide it into three loaves trying to make equal pieces here, get them as uniform as I can, that's fine, so now I'm going to set these two balls of dough aside and I'm going to work with this one. Now we're just going to knead it lightly. to get rid of any air bubbles add flour if you need to because it can get a little sticky so you just want to get rid of any air bubbles that are in there and we want it to fit in our pan right here so once we roll it up you want it to be about that size, so go ahead and start rolling it as tight as you can, add flour to your hands if you need to, so now look at this here, you're just going to gather it up and roll it up. flip it over to make a nice smooth top, now I'm just going to hit it and that removes the air bubbles and then go ahead and place it in your pan, you can hear the air bubbles popping every now and then, okay, now just start to roll it up tight, so pinch the bottom, roll it up to get a nice soft top and then slap it on the table, okay, we've got one more, okay, now what you're going to do is put some butter on it soft on your hands and rub them lightly. the top with that butter and just like with the yeast, make sure you have it on a warmer surface other than this granite or quartz or whatever cold countertop you have, make sure it's on a warmer surface and then you're just going to cover again with a towel and go preheat the oven to 350 while our dough rises, okay they've been rising for about an hour and they're ready to go in the oven, now you're going to set the timer for 30 minutes.

I want to take them out of the molds right after taking them out of the oven. Well now I just take my butter, peel off the paper and just rub the top, this will keep them soft and give them a really good flavor. I wish you could smell this bread right now, don't be shy, put the butter on top, put as much as you want on there, here we go, so when you cut bread you're going to need one of these serrated knives like this one. but my favorite is to use a turkey meat slicer. I do not know what it is.

This is for turkey only. Is for? I don't know anyway. I like this electric knife because it won't break your bread. Look how delicious. Oh thanks. So much to see you guys and I hope you know that it doesn't have to be perfect, just keep trying and doing the best you can and that's what matters. Thank you very much for being here and we'll see you next time. bye