Homemade white loaf

Name: Homemade white loaf
Total time: 1200 s
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 500 g strong white flour; 25 g unsalted butter; 1 tablespoon salt; 1 tablespoon sugar; 300 ml warm water; 7 g yeast

Gareth Jones @cook_25178028

Homemade white loaf

Gareth Jones @cook_25178028

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Ingredients

20 mins

500 gstrong white flour
25 gunsalted butter
1 tablespoonsalt
1 tablespoonsugar
300 mlwarm water
7 gyeast

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Steps

20 mins

1

Mix flour, butter, salt and sugar
2

Once first ingredients are mixed add the yeast and hand mix again.
3

Now slowly add warm water stirring in a bit at a time until you have a dough which is elastic rather than sticky.
4

Tip dough onto your work surface lightly sprinkled with flour. knead the dough for around 10 mins.
5

Lightly oil your mixing bowl. Put your kneaded dough into the bowl and prove in warm area for 1 hour. Place a damp towel or oiled clingfilm over the top.
6

After proving, tip out and knead for a further 2 mins shaping the dough and placing it into a bread baking tray. Prove for a further 2 hours.
7

The dough should have now doubled in size. Cut a 1cm deep slit down the centre of the dough. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180°c for 20 minutes or until the loaf sounds hollow when tapping it on its underside.