Sandwich Bread

 

Sandwich Bread

Bread Slices

Half a Loaf of Bread

Everyone seems to be making bread these days and there are countless You Tube videos demonstrating breadmaking techniques. GrandBoy#2 was spending the day with us and both he and Hubby love bread, so I spent the afternoon watching a video (link at the end of this page) and baking bread. For dinner we had Mexican pizza and also demolished half a loaf, straight out of the oven and slathered with butter. It was delicious and the house smelled heavenly! The slices shown above were cut from this half of the loaf.

When we were growing up in Burma, bread was breakfast food that we ate on the way to school. We would beg Mum to go easy on the butter and go crazy with the sugar or jam. Buttered toast with a sprinkling of sugar was comforting and diverted my attention from the stress of having to go to school. On the weekends or if we were recovering from a cold, we would dip our toast into sweetened milk. My memories of Mum's remedy for combating the 'flu was a triangle of toast that we dipped into chicken soup. It leaves me with a warm and fuzzy feeling towards Mum that is stamped into my memory. 

The nostalgia associated with these memories kept me company while I made bread today. These days, plain buttered toast is my favorite part of any breakfast.

I halved the recipe in the video to make one loaf of bread.

Ingredients

2-1/2 cups self-rising flour

1/8 cup sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

1 (2-1/4 tsp.) pkg. Fleishmann's active dry yeast

1-1/4 cups milk, heated to 105F-110F

2 Tbsp. butter, softened at room temperature

1 egg beaten with 2 Tbsp. milk for egg wash

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Mix flour, sugar, salt and yeast in a large bowl and make a well in the center.
3. Whip milk with 1 Tbsp. butter and pour into well in bowl.
4. Stir with a wooden spoon for 2 minutes until a soft dough forms.
5. Cover bowl and rest for 5 minutes, remove cover and stir for a few seconds.
6. Cover bowl with a clean towel and place in microwave oven for an hour until dough doubles in size.
7. Coat a glass loaf pan with Pam butter-flavored spray.
8. Transfer dough from bowl to a lightly floured surface and shape into a loaf.
9. Place loaf in prepared pan and gently press dough to sides and corners of pan.
10. Brush top of loaf with egg wash, cover with a damp, clean kitchen towel and set aside to rest for 20 minutes.
11. Bake at 350F for 25-30 minutes until skewer inserted in center of loaf comes out clean.
12. Brush top of bread with remaining softened butter and cool for 15 minutes before slicing.

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