I remember spending most of my childhood in the kitchen with my grandmother. She would teach me how to bake and then how to wash dishes. She would get a chair from the bar and I would stand in it next to her. I remember all her baked goods and loved every minute of it. I miss her dearly and she is deeply missed.
I have been making my own bread off and on for years. I remember back in 2013 when I went on a huge health kick wanting to make all my own food. I spent many hours and days perfecting the perfect bread recipe. My kids and husband thought I was crazy. Making your own bread is so much tastier and also no preservatives so healthier. It’s a win, win all around.
Since the pandemic started I have not always been able to find bread on the store shelves. It is even hard to find supplies to make your own bread. I have been lucky in finding a few things of flour here and there. I had yeast already before things went crazy. I have taken oats and ground them up in my food processor to create flour for baking when I can’t find flour.
Bread and Rolls
My favorite part about this recipe is that I use it for EVERYTHING. I use it for dinner rolls, I use it for cinnamon rolls and of course a loaf of bread. I use my bread machine to knead the bread, makes it even easier to make. I just set it on the knead setting and then take it out and rise in the oven, then bake. Find my roll recipe HERE.
Baking Tips
So there are a few important aspects in bread baking that if you are new might not know. In order for your yeast to activate, you need your milk to be WARM, not hot. I pour my milk into a glass measuring cup and heat for about 1 minute to warm. Another things to know is that your wet ingredients go FIRST. That is with anything you are baking. I layer my mixing bowl and place the warm milk, butter, egg first. Then I add flour and make a little hole in the center for the yeast. Then add salt and sugar, then knead together.
The settings for rolls and bread will vary.
For rolls I bake at 375 on a baking sheet about 1 inch apart for 12-14 minutes.
For bread I bake on 325 for 25-30 minutes in a glass baking dish.
Homemade Yeast Bread
Notes
This makes ONE loaf but you can double the recipe for two loafs.
Ingredients
- 1 cup of warm milk
- 1 tablespoon yeast
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 large egg
- 3 cups of flour
Instructions
- Place all your wet ingredients first.
- Then add flour and make a hole in the center for the yeast, then add salt and sugar to sides of flour mound.
- Knead together either in bread machine or by hand.
- Grease a loaf pan and let rise in oven for 30 minutes on bread proof setting or heat oven to 225 and turn off to rise. (Put clean dry towel over loaf pan in oven to help rise)
- Take bread out and punch down and put back in loaf pan to rise another 30 minutes.
- After that, set oven to 325 and bake for 25-30 minutes.
- Take out of oven and place on a rack to cool.
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