My sister Anna is great at making bread. I have a really good wheat bread recipe but the white bread recipe I tried from Pinterest was exceptionally awful! Really, really awful....like hide-it-in-the-cupboard-because-my-inlaws-are-coming-over-and-might-want-to-try-it awful! (yeah, it would have been easier to just throw it away, which is what eventually happened to it!) So anyway, I knew Anna made good bread so I called her rather late one evening to ask for her recipe. She was in labor while giving me the recipe so I was a little skeptical about how well it would work....but apparently she was still fairly functional at that point in her labor! So without further adeaux I will share her recipe (hopefully it's not supposed to be a big secreat....I didn't bother to ask.)
Mix together:
10 Cups of white flour
3/4 C. of granulated sugar
1 T. Salt
2 T. Yeast
3 T. Dough Enhancer *
Add:
1/3 C. oil or 4 T. Soy Lecithin **
4 C. Hot Water
Mix together for 9 minutes (in my Bosch I did 9 minutes on power level 3)
Shape loaves and let the dough raise in the pans until a bit higher than the tops of the pans. Turn oven on 350 and immediately put loaves in the oven (no preheating necessary) and bake for 27 minutes. Anna was very specific about it needing 27 minutes....and she was right, the loaves turned out perfectly!
Makes 3 loaves.
* Dough Enhancer can be purchased in the grocery store near the yeast. I didn't have this so I added about 1/2 C. Vital Wheat Gluten. I figured they both serve the same purpose of helping the bread to hold together better. And the wheat gluten worked great.
** Soy Lecithin can be purchased near the vegetable oil. It is a preservative that helps the bread stay fresh longer. I used vegetable oil instead, but only because I couldn't find any Soy Lecithin at my local grocery store.
Note: The loaves in the pictures are not quite as big as I would normally do but only because I used a lot of my dough to makes scones and what was leftover became these loaves.
