Monday, April 16, 2012

Mmmm Tasty homemade Bread

Is there anything that can rival the smell of fresh bread baking in your oven? I beg to state that there is not!
While checking pinterest out one day I came across a interesting recipe for refrigerated bread. It has only essentially three ingredients. Flour(6 1/2 cups of it) Salt ( 1 1/2 tablespoons of this one) and Yeast (1 1/2 tablespoons) Plus your water and there you go! Super easy recipe I thought and the best part is that you can make this bread right in a container. Picked ours up at a dollar store so it was cheap, but there is a "handle" of sorts on the side, which makes it easy for holding- not so easy for getting your hand inside to mix the bread.
So keeping it short and sweet; get some warm water, 3 cups worth. And dump it right into your large container (think one you would use for storing sugar) stir in the 1 1/2 tablespoons of salt till it's dissolved. Once the salt is dissolved sprinkle the yeast over (that's 1 1/2 tablespoons.) Once your concoction starts to bubble you can pour in your 6 1/2 cups of flour. There is no "clean" way to do this next part. So just accept that dive in. Or if your lucky enough to have a child old enough to understand what you want- have them do it. You will remain fairly clean, they will get to be un-clean along with the rewarding feeling of know that they helped you. Win for everyone.
The lady who wrote about this diy said that she doesn't wash the container out she simply leaves it in the fridge so you get that old sour dough taste with your brand stinking new bread. I'll try this out but I've never been a big fan of sour dough.
Here you have your bread all mixed- this took alot of work for me, the jar I used was narrow. Leave your bread on the counter to raise for a few hours, mine didn't rise quite as long as it should have. Then simply move to your fridge for storage. When the need arises for that delectable smell of fresh bread (you know that you Need it)  simple yank a wad out place in your bread pan and bake!
I thought the bread was so amazingly good and with only a few ingredients  I was quite impressed. I got three loaves out of this but it will vary on how big your loaves are, and again I didn't let my bread rises as long as it initially should have.  Hope you enjoy the finished product!
3 cups water
1.5 tablespoon yeast
1.5 tablespoon salt
6.5 cups flour
450* for 30-35 min
Thank you to the author of Jezebel for this wonderful pin! Go check out her website!
http://jezebel.com/5881847/how-to-make-easy-fast-foolproof-bread-from-scratch

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