Plain and simple white bread

1 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
8 ounces Strong white bread flour; plus a little extra
; for the top of the
; bread
1 tablespoon Salt or less; according to taste
1 teaspoon Easy blend dried yeast
1 teaspoon Golden caster sugar
15 fluid ounce Hand hot water; about
Two 1 lb loaf tins or one 2 lb loaf tin; well buttered

Directions

1 Warm the flour in the oven for about 10 minutes, and turn the oven off.

Sift the flour, salt, yeast and sugar into a bowl, make a well in the centre of the mixture, and add the water.

2 Mix to a dough, starting off with a wooden spoon and using your hands in the final stages of mixing, adding a spot more water if there are any dry bits.

3 Wipe the bowl clean with the dough and put on a flat work surface (you may not need to flour this). Knead the dough for three minutes or until it develops a sheen and blisters under the surface (it should also be springy and elastic).

4 Now either return the dough to the mixing bowl or put in to a clean bowl.

Either way cover with clingfilm lightly oiled on the side facing the dough.

5 Leave until it looks as though it has doubled in bulk, which will be about two hours at room temperature. After that, knock the air out and knead again for two minutes.

6 Halve the dough, pat each piece out to an oblong, and fold one end into the centre and the other in on top. Put each into a buttered tin and sprinkle each with flour.

7 Place the tins side by side in an oiled polythene bag until the dough rises above the tops of the tins - this time about an hour at room temperature. Or place all the dough in the one tin. Preheat the oven to 230c/450f/Gas 8.

8 Bake the loaves on the centre shelf for 30-40 minutes, or 35-45 minutes for the large loaf, until they sound hollow when their bases are tapped.

9 Return them, out of their tins, upside-down to the oven to crisp the base and side crust for about five minutes, and cool on a wire rack.

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Per serving: 0 Calories (kcal); 0g Total Fat; (0% calories from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 0mg Sodium Food Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 0 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates

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