Homemade Sandwich Bread Loaf
I have bought these bread tins from Penang for more than a year and never tried using them before. Few days back, the girls requested for sandwiches for school lunch so I thought why not made a sandwich bread loaf. The girls don’t like sweet bread unless it’s cinnamon buns, so I tweaked the recipe I found in this recipe book, using only 1/3 of the sugar listed on the recipe.
It takes a long time to make produce the loaf because of the ferment, but using a ferment creates a nicer flavour and softer bread, which to me, is worth the wait.
♥Recipe adapted from Carol♥
Ingredients:
For the ferment:
200g strong white flour
135g water
1/2 tsp yeast
For the dough:
210g strong white flour
90g cake flour
1/4 tsp yeast
20g sugar
3/4 tsp salt
60g extra virgin olive oil
145g water
1 egg
Method :
For the ferment :
1) Mix ingredients for the ferment together (I use hand) for about 5mins until you have a rough dough.
2) Place in a lightly oiled bowl, cover and leave it to rest 4hrs~6hrs.
For the dough:
1) Put the flour in a mixing bowl and add in the yeast. Scoop the ferment into the bowl, then add the egg, water, oil, sugar and salt, mixing well until all combined; knead for 4-5mins (I use the Thermomix and knead for 4mins; but you can use hand or a mixer with dough hoook). (Step 1, 2 at the below pix)
2) Remove the dough, and transfer to a lightly oiled bowl, forming it to a ball, cover
3) Leave it to rest for 1.5hrs or until double in size. (Step 4 at the below pix)
4) Sprinkle a little flour on your work surface and turn the dough out in one piece, deflate the dough slightly. Divide the dough equally into 2 portion (it’s very soft but supple). Roll them into balls, cover and let it rest for 15mins. (Step 5 at the below pix)
5) Using a rolling pin, roll the dough out into long flat strips, and then roll each of the strip up into logs. Once again, roll the dough out into long flat strips with the rolling pin, and roll them up again into logs. (Step 6 to 10 at the below pix)
6) Place the 2 pieces of roll up dough in the bread tin. Allow it to proof for an hour. (Step 11 at the below pix)
7) Mean while preheat the oven to 210C. When the rolls are ready (should rise to almost 90% covering the bread tin), place the lid on and put the bread tin into the oven. (Step 12, 13 at the below pix)
8) Bake for 40mins.
9) Once baked, remove the bread from the tin and let it cool on the rack.
Book page from Carol’s 2nd book
And viola, a nice loaf of sandwich bread.
It has a strong crust which holds its shape, and the bread itself is airy and soft.
Note : The bread tin I have is 20cm x 12cm x 11cm. After the dough was rested, I could see that it has risen much bigger than the bread tin, hence I took about 100g dough out and formed them into buns (baked at same temperature for 12mins). It probably would have spilled out of the tin or making the loaf denser if I haven’t done so.
I have this book and have used many of her recipe. Of late I have been making my bread with the following recipe shared by a friend of mine here who is of European-origin:
The measurements are metric. Sorry, I’m European.
500gr all-purpose flour
300ml milk
5 tbsp oil
1 tsp yeast
1 tsp salt
3 tbsp sugar
The milk make the bread soft and doesn’t harden in days. What I love about this recipe is the simplicity. Six ingredients. Healthy and delicious bread. I have been using 50-50 of organic all purpose flour with organic whole wheat flour. To me this recipe is a keeper. Something to share and may you like this recipe as much as me!
Oh this recipe doesn’t need a starter. Just mix everything together with Kitchenaid and use the dough beater to beat the dough for 20 minutes or so, typical of bread making. Then you can either bake in a pullman pan or shape into buns (I usually make hot dog buns with nitrate/nitrite free sausages). Very versatile!
‘Sorry, I’m European.’ sorry too much copy and paste. Haha. This sentence was from the author of the recipe.
Thanks for sharing! I’ll give it a try one of these days.