Bread baking: Sweltering heavenly pleasure with potato water

Bread baking is a big stress reliever. From mixing to punching you reject all your fury and feel wonderful. We will start our very in-demand white sandwich bread recipe. Here today, this bread has potatoes in a vital role. It’s completely a fun process resulting in some amazing learning sessions.

So, here we go…

Ingredients:

• Bread flour- 6 ½ cups
• Sugar- ½ cup
• Butter (softened at room temperature)- 12 Tablespoon
• Salt- 2 ½ Teaspoons
• Instant dry yeast- 1 Tablespoon
• Potato water- 1 ½ cups
• Mashed Potatoes- 1 cup
• Eggs (large)- 2
• Milk- 2 cups

Method:

• Take warm potato water and milk in the stand mixer’s bowl. Sprinkle dry yeast over them and keep it aside for 15 minutes. This resting time allows the yeast to activate.
  You will see bubbles rising in the bowl. This signifies your yeast is now fermented.
• Add flour, sugar, and mashed potatoes to the activated yeast. The paddle attachment of the stand mixer brings the dry and wet ingredients together. Beat for about 4-5 minutes. Then, scrape the sides and bottom.
• Now replace the paddle attachment with the dough hook. Add butter to the dough. Beat for 5-7 minutes on medium-high speed. The dough turns smooth and shiny. Also, the sides and bottom are clean now.
• Butter a bowl and transfer the dough to it. Smoothen it further. Cover the bowl with cling wrap. Set it aside for 30 minutes. You will see that the dough will double in size. Sometimes it’s crowned over the border of the bowl.
• Divide the dough into 2 parts and make 2 logs from it. Place them in two 9*5 greased pans.
• Cover the pans with a damp cloth and set them aside in a warm place for another half an hour to rise.

Baking the bread in the oven:

• Preheat the oven at 350˚C or 662˚F.
• Place the loaf pans in it and brush milk over them. Bake them uncovered for 35 minutes or until the crust appears golden brown or become dry or firm.
• Remove the pans from the oven. Remove the bread from the pans. Place them over the wire rack to cool down. It is gratifying and a deep sense of pride to hold beautiful homemade bread!

Slice them. Toast it and enjoy with butter strawberry jam. I like to have my fresh bread with orange marmalade.

Store the bread in an airtight bread container to keep it fresh and enjoy it longer.
Try the above recipe; I am sure you will end up saying ‘It is the BEST session on Bread Baking’. The bread is light, tender & pillowy. Moreover, it will be the YUMMIEST bread you had so far.

Quarantine Baking- Most Baked Bread

Two varieties of bread shared limelight the most during lockdown 2020 which are a must-try any day –

Banana bread

If you got some overripe bananas from your farmer’s market, you can shape super moist banana bread out of them. The best bake during the quarantine is Banana cake and bread. You have so many opportunities to demonstrate creativity with it. Fewer tweaks lend the ground banana bread recipe a very different taste.

Combine the thick sweet batter with chocolate chips, freeze blueberry or walnuts. Countless choices to improve the flavor and health quotient are also available. Some of the favorites are spices such as cinnamon, peanut butter, and honey. Your loaf of banana bread can produce 12 delicious cakes!

• Banana bread is no-yeast bread that is a quick bake. Baking powder is used as a leavening agent.
• Banana bread became very expensive during the global economic dip of 1929-1939. So, it was not affordable to waste them. The women find a solution to save overripe bananas in this Great Depression. They made banana bread!
• In 1933, banana bread recipe published in the Balanced Recipes Cookbook by Pillsbury.

Sourdough bread

You might have heard about it, but do you know what it is. What is the difference between sourdough bread and normal bread? Unlike most commercial bread, sourdough is naturally leavened bread. Sourdough bread is bread made with the homemade active wild yeast. You need a sourdough bread starter to start baking.

Sourdough starter is a biological leavening agent that uses the naturally cultivated lactobacilli. You just need to follow simple steps to master your sourdough! Here are the steps to culture your starter.

• No kneading is required so if you are a beginner in bread baking, give it a try.
• It is one of the healthiest bread. Due to lesser phytate levels, it checks your blood sugar levels.
• Sourdough bread has a sour taste.

Furthermore, why not make Bread Baking a fun family event. Baking together is awesome. So, share the recipe with your family and friends. Or, call them over your home and enjoy leading them to learn baking the moist potato bread.