Kaboutjie SA Mommy Blogs by Lynne Huysamen
The homemade white bread recipe I tried came out beautifully. The whole family enjoyed it straight out of the oven and are asking me to make more.
I must just add that the recipe I found on allrecipes.com didn’t quite work out for me. I have added notes onto their recipe instructions on these points.
Their recipe states the bread has a very light centre which mine didn’t, it was heavy like potbrood. I think the difference comes in because I wasn’t able to follow the recipe properly. I will try it again and see how it comes out.
Ingredients:
- 7g Yeast
- 20g Sugar
- 295ml warm water (45°C)
- 20g butter or lard
- 9g Salt
- 445g Bread Flour
Instructions:
- In a large bowl dissolve the yeast and sugar in the warm water.
- Stir in the butter, salt and 2 cups of the flour.
- Stir in 1/2 a cup of flour at a time beating well after each addition.(This step is where it didn’t quite work out. When I tried beating the mixture it was too thick and my beater got stuck. I just pulled it off the beater and mixed by hand.)
- When the dough has pulled together knead it for about 8 minutes on a lightly floured surface until it is smooth and elastic
- Place the dough in a lightly oiled bowl and cover with a damp cloth. Leave it to rise and double in size – approximately 1 hour.(My dough did rise, but it didn’t double in size. I left it for 1 1/2 hours.)
- Deflate the dough and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface. Form it into a loaf and place into a 9×5″ greased loaf pan.(This part confused me as I am not a baker, what is meant by deflate? I just squashed it and then kneaded it again for a minute.)
- Cover the loaf with a damp cloth and leave to rise to double it’s size. It should double in size in about 40 minutes.(This time the dough did double in size.)
- Preheat oven to 220°C
- Bake bread at 190°C for about 30 minutes until bread is golden brown.
Click here for the original recipe, it is a lovely website where you can change the ingredient measurements from US to metric. You can also change the serving sizes too.
I’m currently on a no sugar diet but I think I’ll make this for my husband! There is just something about homemade bread that warms you. Thanks for sharing!
Pleasure Ellie 🙂 The best is eating bread that is hot straight out of the oven. Enjoy, and if you get the beating part right please let me know so I can try and get it 100%
I make at least 3 times a month very similar to this recipe.
also the dough can be rolled into balls and made for dinner – vetkoek 😉
Great idea Nicole, will give that a go sometime soon.
It’s lovely and fresh too. The mix should make about 15 vetkoek
I can still remember being in my grandmother’s kitchen as a child as she made bread. Nothing so fancy as this. She would just mix the flour and butter and all together and make biscuits. Very delicious! I can ‘t wait to try out this baking activity with my family.
I also have lovely memories of my grandmother, a lot of them also around food and the kitchen! Enjoy the bread.
In my family, we love bread! We go through about a bag of store bought bread a day, sometimes white bread but mostly wheat bread. Do you have a good homemade wheatbread recipe you can recommend?
I want to buy a bread maker and have fresh homemade bread daily. 🙂
I’m looking into wholewheat bread recipes now, will share if I find a good one. If you have one you are welcome to send it in and I will test it out 🙂
Thank you for this recipe. Will be sure to try it out this weekend. My kids and hubby love homemade baked bread fresh out the oven with butter jam or grated cheese yummy.
You won’t be disappointed Abbygail! Let us know how it works out for you 🙂
Mmmm yummy what better then hom made bread ive send my my mom the recipe picking up my bread tomorrow…she have a bread maker machine so now she have a quick easy recipe guess ill be fetching my bread dailly when im out of bread from her will save on costs will contribute to ingrediants and electricity.
This recipe makes a delicious home made bread thanks mom here is the recipe i gave you @lindafourie keet those breads coming our way haha