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Add the yeast and sugar. Use a spoon to stir it all together. The yeast will begin to react with the sugar, and the mixture will become bubbly and foamy. This should happen within just a few minutes. If 3 minutes have passed and nothing has happened, your yeast might be stale, and you may need to use another batch. You could also try again using water that's a little warmer or cooler, depending on what temperature you initially tried. Pour the flour into a big mixing bowl. Five cups will yield two loaves of bread.

You can use either all-purpose flour or bread flour. The bread flour might have a bit more height, but all-purpose flour works just fine, too. Add the oil, salt and yeast mixture. Pour them one at a time over the flour. Use either a mixture with a dough hook attachment, a hand mixer or a wooden spoon to mix all the ingredients until they come together in a big, sticky ball of dough. Put the ball of dough in an oiled bowl. You can wash out the mixing bowl and oil that one, or use a separate oiled bowl. It should be at least twice the size as the ball of dough, so the dough has room to rise. Cover the dough and put it in a warm place.

Cover it loosely with plastic wrap - it shouldn't be airtight - or place a clean dishcloth over the bowl.

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Put it in a warm area in your kitchen. If your kitchen tends to be drafty, preheat your oven to degrees, turn it off, and put the bowl in there. It'll be just the right temperature for the dough to rise. Let the dough rise for 25 minutes. During this time it will start puffing up. It won't quite double in size, but it will rise enough to give the dough a good texture. Punch and knead the dough. If you have a stand mixer, use the dough hook attachment and knead the dough until it relaxes - about 5 minutes.

If you don't have a mixer, you can knead the dough by hand. Turn it out onto a floured surface and use the heels of your hands to knead for 10 minutes, or until the dough relaxes. You'll know the dough has relaxed when it stops pulling back into a ball shape when you pause your kneading. The mixture will strongly smell of yeast and look foamy when ready-to-use.

Melt the butter and add it along with milk, sugar and salt into the yeast mixture. Add 2 cups of flour and stir well. You can use an electric mixer, or a whisk. As shown in the image. The dough will start to not stick to the sides of the bowl. Knead for 10 minutes by hand.

See How to Knead Dough. Add the ball of dough to the mixing bowl. Turn to coat with nonstick cooking spray. Does the bread machine do the whole proccess on its own and only tells you to add the ingredients? It depends on the kind of bread you are making, but mostly yes, the bread machine does all the work for you, especially if you are just looking to make a simple, tasty loaf.

Usually, the ingredients need to be added in a particular order wet ingredients first, followed by dry, etc. Just remember to use the same ingredients the recipe asks for, such as type of yeast and flour, and you will get a fairly consistent result every time. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 7. There isn't really anything you can use instead, but you can use self-rising flour without it.

Your bread will be quite dense and might have a weird texture, but it still tastes pretty good. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 1. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 0. A normal bread pan will do perfectly, unless the loaf is abnormally large, in which case you should then try a larger bread pan.

You need to cook the bread for about 30 minutes at the temperature F or C. Can I put a container with water on the bottom rack of the oven to make the bread moist?

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This will be very handy when you are looking for soft, moist loaves of bread. I did, and it came out fine. I still had to add the 1 cup of water though. Not Helpful 3 Helpful 0. I just formed it into a ball and cut it in quarters. This is my first time making a formed bread not breadmaker.

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The last time I attempted to make my own dinner rolls, they ended up not rising and tasted like pretzels. My family still makes fun of me for the pretzel dinner rolls.

Did I need to add more flour? I added all 6 cups plus a little bit after it was on the table. Came out so goopy and gross. I told my husband who loves to bake he restarted and it came out the same way. Looked like glop on tray. Burned on bottom before it was even in oven 5 min. Awful awful recipe and for the same thing to happen twice to two different people.

It was a waste of time and money. Move on to a different one. I added the first step right in the kitchen mixture and went from there. I did have to add a few tbsp worth of flour while the mixture was kneading in the mixture. Kneaded 4 times, let rise longer bc I added active dry yeast instead of instant. Very fluffy and crispy. The dip was wonderful as well. I did use olive oil in the ingredients. No complaints about this recipe.

People just need to make sure the oven is right and they follow the recipe to a T. My mother used to make bread and buns and I helped her. I am going to try this.

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It looks so good, I can smell it baking already. Does anyone know if I can use active yeast instead of instant yeast? Does anyone know if I can use active yeast instead of instant? And how I go about doing that? Hi, just wanted to thank you for this wonderful recipe. I make it every week. We use this bread for everything. It has seriously changed my life as silly as that sounds!

I LOVE this recipe….. We have made it several times now. I found the dough to be a bit too dry. The crust of the bread was too hard. The inside however was soft. My husband loves french bread but the ones at our grocery store are too hard and I hate having to go to a second grocery store just for bread.

I have never made bread before because for some odd reason I was terrified of tackling any recipe that required yeast. Well I decided to just give it a shot because I was too lazy to drive to another grocery store and making fresh bread seem to make more sense at the time. Granted I was running on 4 hours of sleep and no coffee.. Shockingly this was the easiest thing I have ever made! The only thing I will change is the baking time, it was just a few minutes too long for my oven. And oh my goodness, I am drying over the garlic herb butter! I am so glad I found this recipe as I will be making it way too often!

This recipe was a total mess from the beginning, the dough was way too sticky a lot more than normal and I had to add flour several times because it looked more like cake batter. It needs more salt. It came out of the oven looking and feeling like a brick, inside it was pasty and looked kinda grey. The confusion with the amount of yeast ruined the entire recipe and all the hard work I put on it went to waste. I just love this bread recipe, and the spread is amazing! This was the first bread recipe I have ever used, and the first time I have ever made bread.

I was surprised at how simple it was! Once I had used unbleached flour and the dough consistency was very different and super sticky. It still tasted great, it was just more of a mess when handling the dough. But so far I have made it 3 more times and each time they came out great! Can you send me a pdf version of the french bread with garlic herb spread?

This recipe is awesome! I have been buying the Walmart French bread for while. When I read the ingredients I get weasy! It is my therapy. Thanks for sharing this with us. Your instructions were great. This will be my good to. Really enjoying this recipe and so glad you posted it.

We are a family of 6, so milk and bread are usually the 2 things we run out of first. Now I can always have bread, as for the milk… I might need to buy a cow: This bread is amazing and I have made it several times now! It is always a hit among friends and I plan to make a bunch to freeze in the next few weeks to have some on hand for all my friends having babies!

With a baker in the family, I am a little intimidated to make things to take to family functions, but this did not disappoint. Oh, and the cheese spread. I have a related question: CUP means ml? The recipe looks awesome and the bread came out delicious in the pics: I would love to make this recipe but you provided the ingredients in volume. Can you please provide the recipe in weight rather than volume? Weight is the most accurate way of ensuring people can replicate your recipes without error.

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The recipe is awesome, but I have a hard time accessing it because of the overload. You can make this recipe without a mixer. You will end up adding in the rest of the flour as you continue to knead. Sorry, would be my first time to try baking if ever! Can I use just regular active dry yeast instead of instant yeast? Remember Not all people are as privileged as you are to just walk in their store and be able to find instant yeast. And if I can find it I will be using bread flour for this recipe if I make.

And what is wrong with light golden brown. The finished picture for your bread looks too brown for me. Sure would appreciate a button to just print the recipe and not all 65 pages. The bread looks great and I look forward to trying it. Luckily I had all the ingredients and found an awesome recipe for some French bread. This recipe was not nearly as time consuming as it sounds. Making the dough is really quick, some yeast, flour, water, sugar and salt was all it took.

After I mixed all the ingredients, I kneaded the dough for about five minutes. I then let the dough chill and rise for an hour. The recipe only calls for letting it chill for 30 minutes, but I left it in for twice as long. I skipped the kneading it every ten minutes for an hour, and just kneaded it for five minutes before forming it into loaves. After letting the bread bake, it was time to test my creation.

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The bread looked beautiful. It was a light golden brown, and the crust was nice and crispy while the middle was soft. Taste wise, it was fantastic. The bread was delicious. However, it was still a little heavy. Next time I try this out, I will let the dough chill for a lot longer, and knead it every ten minutes for an hour like the recipe calls for. Recipe for French Bread […]. I love turning French Bread into garlic toast to go with spaghetti. But my favorite was always the french bread that had just been done that same morning with some butter and a latte.

Hands down my favorite breakfast. There is french bread on island in plenty of places, but its just not the same and find the good ones not very consistent. So I decided to search Pinterest for a simple to follow recipe for french bread that I can make as a beginner. My friend Kate came over my house after having done this same recipe herself just a few days before me, and also brought her awesome camera to take amazing photos of the process and the final product.

The original recipe and instructions came from this lovely website: Soft and Chewy French Bread. The recipe also includes a delicious sounding garlic spread but alas, I am out of cream cheese […]. Which is why I set out to find a recipe for this homemade wonder. I should say that this recipe makes 4 loaves of bread which is fabulous for […]. Your email address will not be published.

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You may also like: I love french bread! And the garlic spread sounds delicious! Will have to give this a try! Thanks so much for the recipe! I made them as my first bread ever and loved it! Would it change the texture any if I was to use part whole wheat flour and part white flour? Thanks for letting me know — I love to hear that things work out well for people! I wonder how this recipe would do in a bread machine for making the dough. How did the bread turn out leaving it in the mixer as opposed to kneading it by hand?

Im using active yeast in the little pouches.. What kind of oil do you use? Is it vegetable oil or olive oil? I have a silly question do you use bread flour or regular all purpose flour for this recipe. I always just use regular all purpose flour — good luck! I forgot to mention that I make two loafs instead of four and they come out perfect every time. Also, does margarine work for butter in the spread?

What type of oil did you use for the bread recipe? I wondered if you can use bread flour for the regular flour?