How To Make Bread

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How To Make Bread

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

Deuteronomy 8:3

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Making bread is one of the pure joys of being a homemaker!

Here are step by step pictures on how to make the Basic Wheat Bread Recipe. It is almost the same process for any yeast bread. There are some variations depending on the recipe. Hope it helps you to see the process and how each step is done.

Basic Wheat Bread Recipe

7 cups Warm Water

6 – 7 TBSP Yeast

½ cup Oil

1 ½ TBSP Salt

¾ cup Sugar or Honey

17 to 19 cups all-purpose flour

Mix first five ingredients then add 7 cups of flour, mix again. Next add about 10 – 12 more cups of flour. Roll out on a floured surface.

Mix in flour as you knead. Knead about 10 minutes. When finished kneading, place in a greased bowl and turn to grease top. Let rise till doubled. Then punch dough down, and divide into loaves. Oil pans and put in loaves. Let rise till double. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes.

*This makes a week worth of bread. Makes 6 loaves. You can also make these into rolls.

Mix all your ingredients in a Large Bowl

I use a whisk to start before I add the flour.

This is the start of Kneading

Pressing Down

You never want to Over-Knead your bread. Just 8 to 10 minutes ought to do it. It should be fairly smooth and elastic when it is done.

Psalms 37:25 I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Press Down Again

Knead to release the gluten

Before Rising

Greased Bowl

Cutting the Dough

Form Loaves

Or you can make rolls

After Rising in pans

Doubled in size

Flour the Dough

Lightly Does It

Step 2 in Kneading

Fold Dough

To Knead:

Press down
Fold top over to bottom
Press down and rotate dough counter clockwise
Repeat

Form a nice rounded ball of dough

You know the dough is through rising when you can poke a finger in it and the space does not fill up immediately.

After Rising

Doubled in Size

They don't last long!!

Full Batch of Basic Wheat Bread Recipe

Enough Bread For A Week

I make all kinds of loaves and rolls. Sometimes - I make the entire batch into loaves - some full size and some small to share with elderly neighbors who live alone.

John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

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