Today I tried my hands on baking a simple bread for the first time. The result has come out good as you can see it in the clicks. Read below for the detailed recipe....

Recipe Source - Remya's Baking



Ingredients:
Sugar - 1 tsp
Active dry yeast (Red Star) - 1 tsp
Lukewarm water - 120 ml.
All purpose flour - 2 cups
Butter - 2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Milk - 1 tsp


Method:
Mix sugar and yeast and pour half of the luke warm water and stir with a spoon till it is well combined and place in a warm cabinet on top of your stove for 10- 15 minutes, until it is frothy. Grease the bread loaf tin with butter or cooking spray.In a large mixing bowl, put the flour and add the yeast mixture and mix it well and add the rest of the water and knead until the dough comes together

Place the dough into a clean work surface and knead well in stretching motions, pulling the dough with one hand and pushing with another and continue for 5 minutes

Rub the butter and salt together with finger until it is creamy and incorporate the two into the dough and knead again till all the butter is worked into it and the dough obtained is smooth and pliable one

Make the dough into a ball and cover it with a moist muslin cloth and allow the dough to rise (proofing) about 1 hour and it will double the size

Punch a hole in the dough and fold the dough and again  knead briefly. Lay the dough on a floured area and spread in half inch thickness. Roll the dough and tuck the edges and put it into a bread loaf pan (As I didn't have a bread loaf pan, I made it into small round balls and kept in my regular round pan)

Allow the dough to rise again for  45 minutes to one hour. Brush the crust of the dough with milk

Preheat the oven to 180C and bake for 35 to 40 minutes until a golden brown color appears on the top (as

I've got a convection oven, I played with the temperature settings and the timings for getting better results, 160C for 25 minutes)

Remove from the oven and immediately brush the top with melted butter
Cool the bread loaf keeping it for at least 3 to 4 hours before slicing
I have reduced all the ingredients mentioned into half
You can modify the taste of basic bread and add your own contributions like mince meat, olives, ginger, garlic, etc. A sweet bread is obtained when you sweeten it

Come back again for more of my trial and error recipes in baking.... :)