How to make white bread - easy amazing white
bread recipe Hello and welcome back to In the Kitchen with
Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor. Today I am going to show you how to make white
bread; this classic white bread recipe is so yummy it is really easy to do also. It's my favorite white bread recipe, oh, I
just love it, and you got to try it yourself, let's get started. First we want to proof our yeast. I have one cup of water here, and I am going
to heat this up in the microwave for about 40 seconds, we want the temp to be between
105 and 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay once our water is heated up, I am going
to take some of my sugar, I have 1/3 cup of sugar, and I am just going to add, oh about
a tsp. of it. And then I am going to take 2 and 1 fourth
tsp. of active dry yeast, which equals about 1 packet, put that in there. We just take a fork and mix this around a
little bit, and then we just let this set for about 5 to 10 minutes, until it gets nice
and foamy. If the yeast does not get foamy after 10 minutes,
the yeast is bad or the water was too hot, so you want to start again. As you can see our yeast is nice and foamy,
on to the next step. So I got a large bowl here, I am going to
take our yeast and our water and put it right in there. And now I have 2 tablespoons or one-eighth
cup or canola oil, or you can use vegetable oil, also. The rest of my 1/3rd cup of sugar, if you
don't like your bread as sweet you can cut the sugar back to 1 quarter cup. Take a wooden spoon we are going to mix this
around a little bit. Now I have 3 cups of bread flour here, you
can use all-purpose flour, but the bread will come out a little more dense, but it will
still taste amazing, so I do recommend using bread flour if you have it, if not, you can
use all-purpose flour. I am going to add, just shy of 1 tsp. so three quarters tsp. of salt. We will give that a good whisk. And now we are going to add this flour, a
little bit at a time, about a third of it. And then with our wooden spoon let's mix it
all in, all right; add some more, about another third. We will add a little bit more, and then leave
about a quarter cup of it left, and we are going to pour this out on the table there. And then it is going to come together, like
this. And now we want to take this, and pour it
out on the table. Make sure to get some flour, make sure the
surface is nice and floured. And then we want to start to knead, and we
want to knead the dough together until it gets nice and smooth, for 8 minutes. I am going to set the timer. And so what you do is you just take your dough,
you are going to fold it over and then push, turn it, quarter turn, fold, push. And just flour, keep flouring the surface
as necessary. Okay and then when you are done, just flip
it over, and then just kind of go in with your hands like this, and just shape it, in
a ball, kind of smooth, and then when you push on it, it will pop back up like that. All right, and you notice I didn't use all
of my flour, so you don't want to add all of your flour all at once. Sometimes you will have this much left; sometimes
you will have a little bit less, or a little bit more. But you definitely don't want to add it all
at once. So if you are using a stand mixer, don't just
throw it all in there, make sure you add a little bit at a time like I did. Now, we take a large bowl here, and I put
just about a tsp. 2 tsp. of oil on the bottom, and then just come in here with your fingers,
okay, take our dough, drop it in there, and then just make sure it gets all coated with
the oil. Then, take a damp cloth, and lay it over,
and we are going to let this rise, for about an hour to two hours, until it has doubled
in size. The time will depend on how warm your house
is, try and put it in a warm place. All right it has been a couple of hours, take
of this, wow look at that, look how beautifully the dough rose, all right now I am gonna just
take the dough out. Put it on the tabletop there. And we are just going to knead it a little
bit. And then what we want to do is just kind of
roll it, and kind of stretch it a little bit. Oh about like that, so we shape it pretty
much into a loaf. You take a large, 9 by 5 inch bread pan, take
our dough and put it right in there. And then what we are going to do is we are
just going to cover this up again with our towel, and then we will go ahead and let this
rise again for another hour to an hour and a half. It could be a little bit less; we just want
the top to get above our pan. All right time to take a look at our bread,
wow, look at that awesome, so it rose great, it is about an inch and a half above our pan
here. And now what we are going to do is put this
in the oven, a pre-heated oven, at 350 degrees F., and we are going to bake it for 30 minutes. Check it after 25 minutes and if it is getting
too brown on top, just put some foil on the top to protect it. All right, in the oven, 350 degrees F. for
30 minutes. All right I just took the white bread out
of the oven, and it turned out amazing. It looks fantastic, smells really good, awesome. And now what I am going to do is I am going
to just let this set and cool for about 5 minutes and then what I will do is I will
go ahead and take it out of the pan and transfer it over to a wire rack, and let it cool completely,
before cutting into it. Now I am going to cut into this and show you
what it looks like. It is really soft and light for how big it
is which is really cool. Go in here, cut off a nice slice, wow, look
at that. It is so nice and soft and fluffy, amazing. Get a shot of that in the light. All right our classic white bread is done,
oh yeah, smells amazing, looks amazing, turned out fantastic, it was really easy to do, if
I can do it, you can do it. Go out there and make your own. I am Matt Taylor; this has been another episode
of In the Kitchen with Matt, thank you for joining me, as always if you have any questions
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oh yeah.