How to make bread at home?
With or without a machine, it is very easy to make delicious recipes for savory or sweet homemade bread. The operation requires several steps and good preparation. No need to wish to make your bread quickly, because it will necessarily leave a exposure time so that the dough swells. The temperature of the room as well as the choice of ingredients for your bread are also to be taken into consideration. The important thing is not to rush to succeed in making a real baker's bread.
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You can dispense with a bread machine, your result will not be less successful. The difference will be at the level of kneading and cooking. To make a homemade bread without a machine, you will have to work the dough with the palm of your hand and folding it back on itself for 5 to 15 minutes depending on the recipes. You can also use a robot to knead the dough at medium speed for 10 minutes. It will be ready when it has taken an elastic consistency.
The cooking, meanwhile, should be done in a very hot oven. It will have preheated to 250 ° and you will lower it to 230 ° for cooking. Before baking, it is advisable to make horizontal incisions in the dough. Do not open the oven door for 20 minutes. Cooking usually takes half an hour. Once the bread is out, it must be allowed to cool on a wire rack so that it is aired and the moisture escapes completely without softening the bread.
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Our tips for making bread without a bread machine
It is important that the dough swells, otherwise you will have dry bread and a yeast-flavored crumb. Let your dough rest in a warm place, it will double in size more quickly. This technique is very popular for making old-style bread. In a bowl, mix 500 g of bread flour and 2 sachets of baking yeast. Add 33 cl of warm water and knead for one minute. Add a teaspoon of salt and repeat the manual kneading for 15 minutes. Preheat the oven gently, at low heat, then turn it off and place your dough there. The heat will make it go up. Divide your ball in half after 10 minutes and let them rise for half an hour. Take them out of the oven, incise them and sprinkle with flour before baking them in a hot oven for 30 minutes.
The recipe for homemade white bread is very similar to that for old-fashioned bread. You mix 30 cl of warm water, a teaspoon of oil, 500 g of flour, 2 sachets of baking yeast, 10 g of salt and ½ teaspoon of sugar. Knead the dough and let it rise for 1 hour 30 minutes. You then separate it into two elongated balls or breads and let it rest for another ¾ hour. Cook for 35 minutes at 210 °.
Fancy a special bread? Create a whole wheat bread, particularly appreciated for toast or to taste it. Dilute a teaspoon of yeast and one of brown sugar in 150 ml of warm milk. In a bowl, mix 200 g of flour and 50 g of rye flour with 2 tablespoons of honey. Mix before adding the milk then 30 g of soft butter. Knead and form a ball before covering. After fermentation, degas the dough by shaping several balls which you place in a buttered cake pan. Let it sit again. Attention, the dough must triple in volume, do not over-tighten the balls between them. Preheat the oven to 180 ° and bake for 30 minutes.
Can we make bread without kneading?
If there are breads without yeast, capable of swelling anyway, there is also a bread recipe without the kneading stage. The no-knead bread comes from America and requires a long fermentation to compensate for the lack of kneading. Mix 375 g of flour with a teaspoon of salt and 12 g of fresh yeast. Mix with a wooden spoon and add 300 ml of lukewarm, sweet water with a teaspoon of sugar. Mix again and cover with a damp cloth. Let stand for 18 hours away from drafts. Divide the dough in half. Preheat the oven to 240 ° and bake the breads for ½ hour.
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