This basic bread dough recipe is so versatile. You can use it for hamburger and hotdog buns, dinner rolls, and loaf bread, which I slice to make sandwich bread. So many possibilities with one simple recipe.
This basic recipe will make...
- 2 loaves of bread- approx 1,000 grams each
- 2 9x13 pans of dinner rolls- 24 rolls 80 grams each, or 30 rolls 70 grams each
- 20 hamburger/sandwich buns- 100 grams each
- I generally make a loaf of sandwich bread and 10 hamburger buns in one batch. I bake them, then freeze what I think won't get eaten within 3 or 4 days
Ingredients:
1000 g Freshly Milled Flour (approx. 8 Cups) *See notes below on types of wheat berries to use
72 g Olive Oil (1/3 Cup)
170 g Honey (1/2 Cup or more)
515 g Warm Water (2 1/4 Cup)
3 eggs
6 tsp Instant Yeast (18 g)
3 tsp Salt (20 g)
Directions:
- Mill your flour and set aside.
- Set your mixing bowl on a kitchen scale and add the following 4 ingredients: olive oil, honey, warm water and eggs (Make sure to reset your scale to "0 grams" before adding each ingredient)
- Add the flour and instant yeast.
- Remove mixing bowl from scale and attach to mixer. Mix ingredients until they are incorporated (2-3 min)
- Cover with a towel and let rest for 10-15 minutes so the flour can absorb the liquids.
- After resting add the salt and knead in the mixer for 10 minutes or until you achieve a "windowpane". Your dough will be sticky.
- Prepare your pans with parchment paper for easy cleanup.
- Oil your hands and work surface with olive oil then remove the dough from the bowl and divide according to what you are making.
- Shape the dough with tension and put in parchment paper lined pans.
- Cover with plastic wrap or put in your oven to rise for approx. 30 minutes or until double in size and they don't spring back easily when gently poked.
- Remove from oven to preheat, then bake until internal temperature is 185-190 F.
- Bake Loaves: 355 degrees for 40 minutes
- Bake Rolls/Buns: 375 degrees for 20 minutes (Can rub the tops of rolls with butter)
Notes:
- To get 1,000 grams of flour mill 1,000 grams of wheat berries. You can use all Hard White berries or consider a mixture of 800 grams (4 1/2 C) Hard White berries and 200 grams (1 C) Spelt berries. You can also purchase our already mixed and milled Bread Flour that is milled fresh to order then shipped.
- If you want a darker "wheatier" tasting bread, use Hard Red berries instead.
- When you try a new recipe understand it is not a perfect science. You may have to adjust your recipe according to your oven, where you live, the weather, and what type of wheat berries you are using. Each wheat growing season is different dependent upon the weather, and specifically how much rain each grain crop receives. So even after you perfect your recipe, when you order a new bag of berries, just note that you may have to adjust your recipe slightly.
- Enjoy experimenting with different types of berries to get the taste you like best. For a yeast bread like this, you will want the majority to be a hard wheat (Hard Red or Hard White) to give it the gluten structure. But you can also add other varieties to give it more depth of flavor.
- In most bread recipes the dough is allowed to rise twice. In this recipe it only rises once after it is formed. I enjoy this recipe because it saves time and my breads have always turned out great. However, you can add another rise if you choose to, before you form it. The bread seems to have a "yeastier" taste when you do this.
- If you want your bread to rise faster you can add more yeast, 6-13 tsp recommended. You can also put your pans in the oven with the light turned on or set the pans on the stove to rise while it's preheating.
- This bread dough can be frozen after it's formed. When ready to bake, pull out of the freezer and put in parchment lined pans. Let the dough come to room temperature, then rise and bake as the recipe directs.
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