White Bread

After rearranging my room, I found many recipes that I want to try from the old cookbooks.

Well, all of the books are packed with a load of post-it, haha, well I have a habit of putting on the recipe that I think it's interesting. 

This recipe is one of them. Very basic bread that I think it's good for playing with ^^.

Because it contains a small amount of sugar and butter, the flavor of the bread is coming from the milk and the bread flour that you use.

And I used different kinds of bread flour (I'm so happy that right now it's easy to buy good quality flour in Thailand). It's fun to see the result of this basic recipe.

When using high gluten flour, you will get chewy bread, and for the lower type, your bread will be fluffy, soft, and very crispy after toasting.

One thing that you need to think about when making bread is the amount of liquid. As different types of flour will absorb the liquid differently too. So adjust it to suit yours.

* for this recipe, when using high gluten flour you may need to add more liquid (about 10-20% of the original amount)

Recipe: White bread

สูตรภาษาไทย: ขนมปังขาว

日本語のレシピ：簡単手ごね白パン

Youtube: ขนมปังขาว, White bread, 簡単手ごね白パン

White Bread

Makes 6

250 g ...................... Bread Flour 

10 g ........................ Granulated sugar 

3 g .......................... Instant yeast

3 g .......................... Salt

200 g ..................... Milk*

10 g ........................ Unsalted butter

................................ Bread Flour for dipping

................................ Unsalted butter for bushing a bowl.

* for this recipe, when using high gluten flour you may need to add more liquid (about 10-20% of the original amount)

Put the bread flour, sugar, and instant yeast into a bowl.

Whisk to combine. Add the salt and whisk to combine.

Pour the milk into the bowl, and mix.

Mix until a dough forms.

Remove the dough from the bowl. 

Knead for 7-8 minutes.

Knead until the dough passed the windowpane test.

Put the unsalted butter into the dough.

Knead for 5-6 minutes.

And roll the dough into a ball.

Brush a bowl with unsalted butter, put the dough into the bowl. 

Cover with a damp tea towel and let it rise for 1 hour or until double in size.

When the dough is ready.

Cut it into 6 equal pieces.

Roll each piece into a ball.

Cover and rest before shaping for 15 minutes.

Reshape the dough into a ball.

Dip the top of the dough into a bowl of bread flour.

Press a chopstick on the center to make an indent.

Cover and let it rise until almost double in size (40-50 minutes at 27 ℃)

Before baking, preheat an oven to 190℃. Using upper and lower heat.

Put the dough into the oven.

Decrease the temperature to 140℃ and bake for 15 minutes.

Enjoy!

White Bread