Isn’t the smell of freshly baked bread the best! This recipe makes a single loaf of homemade white bread! Just as easy as it is delicious!
Freshly baked bread is one of my favorite smells! It reminds me of my Grandma. My Grandma is the one who taught me how to make homemade bread and inspired my love of baking! This is my go to recipe for homemade white bread. This recipe makes just a single loaf, but can be doubled to make two. If you don’t consider yourself an expert baker don’t worry. This recipe is pretty easy. Give it a try! Let me know how it goes!
Mix the dough according to the recipe directions. After mixing in 3 cups of the flour, add the last cup of flour a 1/4 cup at a time. You may not need the entire last cup of flour. Once the dough forms a soft dough and is only slightly sticky to the touch. As you can see in the picture above, my dough is pulling away from the sides of the mixer bowl but still sticking to the bottom a little. Cover the dough and let it rise until doubled. This will take 40-60 minutes.
Dump the risen dough onto a lightly floured surface. I don’t really punch it down. I just squish it into a bread loaf shape and place it in a greased bread pan. 
Cover and let rise until doubled as shown above. This will take 40-60 minutes.
Bake at 350 for 20 minutes, then tent with foil. Continue to bake for another 20-25 minutes. The loaf should sound hollow when thumped. Run a small cube of butter over the top of the loaf and cool for 10 minutes in the bread before turning it out onto a wire rack to completely cool.
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Isn’t the smell of freshly baked bread the best! This recipe makes a single loaf of homemade white bread! Just as easy as it is delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 Cups Warm Water
- 3 Tbs . Sugar
- 1 Tbs . Active Dry Yeast
- 4 Tbs . room temperature Butter
- 1 1/2 tsp Salt
- 3-4 Cups All Purpose Flour
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, dissolve the yeast and sugar in the warm water. Let stand 5 minutes to get foamy.
- Mix in the butter, salt, and 3 cups of the flour with a dough hook.
- Once well combined, add the last cup of flour 1/4 cup at a time until the dough forms a ball, pulls away from the sides of the bowl and is only slightly sticky to the touch. YOU MAY NOT NEED THE ENTIRE LAST CUP OF FLOUR.
- Knead for 3 minutes at medium speed.
- Cover the bowl with a dish cloth and allow dough to rise until doubled. This will take up to 45 minutes.
- Dump the risen dough out onto a lightly floured surface and shape into a loaf. Place in a greased bread pan.
- Cover and let rise until doubled. This will take up to 60 minutes.
- Bake the bread at 350 degrees, for 20 minutes, tent with some tin foil and continue to bake another 20-25 minutes. Your bread loaf should sound hollow when thumped.
- Run a small cube of butter over the top the hot bread loaf. Let cool for 10 minutes in the bread pan before turning it out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Keywords: homemade bread, white bread
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I make this just about every weekend! So easy and delicious! After a few times making it, I started experimenting with whole wheat flour, olive oil, milk etc… it still ends up great, so it’s a great, versatile recipe.
That’s great! It’s one of my favorites that I make a lot too!
Hi Mindee,
Great recipe. Have you tried making this in a bread cloche? I got one for Christmas and want to use it a bit more.
Thanks,
Joe
I haven’t. I just got something similar to a bread cloche and haven’t had time to try it yet. Will definitely add it to my to try list though!