Tasty and fragrant bread can be baked not only in the Russian furnace or the bread machine, but also in a usual oven. Baking of home-made bread - not too difficult occupation also is quite available to beginners. It is necessary to adhere only strictly to the sequence of operations and to observe temperature condition.
It is required to you
- 2 kg of flour;
- 300 ml of water or serum;
- 20 g of the yeast pressed;
- 5 tsps of salt.
Instruction
1. Sift flour. For ferment mix flour, yeast, salt and warm water or serum. Water temperature or serums shouldn't hang 40 °, otherwise it will kill ferment. Leave ferment for fermentation during a couple of hours. Then add other flour and knead dough. If you bake a wheat bread, knead dough carefully, minutes 20 manually or 7-10 minutes in the food processor. Dough from rye flour long shouldn't be kneaded, such flour doesn't form gluten, it is enough to mix dough and to put it to have a rest.
2. When dough approaches, a little it you remember and divide into two parts. Lay out in the oiled high forms and let's rise. Put in an oven for 10 minutes at a temperature of 180 °, then increase temperature up to 200-250 °. Bake bread of 30-40 minutes. In the course of baking don't open an oven, otherwise the quality of bread can worsen. To check readiness, knock on a bread bottom - there has to be a sound as though inside it is empty.
3. If you want a brilliant crust, slightly sprinkle a little bread water and cool it on a lattice, having covered with a towel. If you want a soft crust, right after pastries cover bread with a damp towel for 20 minutes.
4. White bread is especially tasty, being fresh, and rye - next day. You store home-made bread in a bread box, but not in the fridge. It is possible to put the cooled-down bread in a polyethylene sack and to shift in the freezer. When it is defrozen, will be as fresh. It is convenient to freeze the cut bread - slices thaw very quickly. Still it is possible to defreeze a product in the microwave or an oven. Put the frozen slices or buns in a cold oven, include it on 170 ° and warm up 10-12 minutes - bread will be crisp and as fresh.
5. After you master the main recipe, it is possible to begin to experiment. Fry couple of bulbs and add to dough - onions bread will turn out. It is possible to strew from above with caraway seeds, sesame or fried sunflower seeds. If to put before the pastries in bread the frozen oil with garlic, very tasty garlic bread will turn out.