| Making bread used to be a time consuming chore | | | | tablespoon of baking soda; |
| which many housewives did every single day using | | | | one and a half cups of water; |
| easy bread recipes. It involved making a dough mixture | | | | two teaspoons of either white or cider vinegar. |
| out of flour, sugar, yeast and some warm milk, then | | | | This recipe does not include yeast and will not rise |
| spreading flour out on the counter top, plopping the | | | | quite as high but still make a great loaf of bread when |
| dough mixture out, and kneading it for what seemed | | | | baked at four hundred degrees for about forty |
| like hours. Next the harried housewife would put the | | | | minutes. |
| dough in a greased bowl, cover it, place it in a warm | | | | Other simple recipes which include yeast follow below: |
| area, and wait for it to rise. This might be repeated | | | | Ingredients for buttermilk bread: |
| depending on the type of bread she was making. | | | | one cup of buttermilk; |
| Finally the dough would be kneaded once again and | | | | one tablespoon of olive oil; |
| placed into greased bread pans and allowed to rise | | | | three tablespoons of honey; |
| again. Finally, when the mixture had doubled in size, she | | | | one and a half teaspoons of salt; |
| would put the loaves into the oven and bake them for | | | | one quarter teaspoon of baking soda; |
| about an hour. | | | | three cups of bread flour or all purpose flour; |
| The fine art of bread making at home was | | | | three teaspoons of instant dry active yeast. |
| resurrected when electric bread making machines | | | | Bake at three hundred fifty degrees for about forty |
| came on the scene. These behemoths took up a large | | | | minutes. |
| portion of the counter top in many kitchens but were a | | | | Another quick recipe is the one with ingredients below: |
| welcome addition as they considerably shortened the | | | | two and one half cups of warm water; |
| time it took to knead, rise, and bake a loaf of bread. | | | | one packet of dry yeast; |
| And the end result was nearly as good. Recipes had | | | | one ounce of honey or sugar; |
| to be converted for use in bread makers because | | | | two pounds of flour; |
| they could only produce one loaf at a time. Many | | | | a pinch of salt. |
| cooks chose to use their bread maker to knead the | | | | This basic bread recipe calls for about fifty minutes of |
| dough only, then remove it and finish the rising and | | | | baking at three hundred seventy five degrees. |
| baking on their own. | | | | There are many more easy bread recipes available on |
| Most basic bread recipes include the following | | | | the Internet with variations to suit any family. Whether |
| ingredients: | | | | you wish to use yeast or not is entirely up to you. |
| four cups of flour (all purpose or bread flour); | | | | Sizes and shapes vary and only make the art of |
| one tablespoon of white sugar; | | | | bread making more interesting. |
| one half tablespoon of baking powder or one half | | | | |