How Do You Make Bread From Scratch?
The following step by step tips and suggestions will help any baker make bread that does not taste like supermarket bread aisle sandwich fodder. Making bread is an easy, enjoyable and inexpensive way to putter around the kitchen. Follow these instructions to make your own delicious bread. This page goes well in combination with How to Make Bread. • Combine 5 ounces of the flour, 1/4 teaspoon of the yeast, all of the honey, and all of the bottled water in a straight-sided container; cover loosely and refrigerate for 8 to 12 hours (overnight is best). • Why do we do this? Well, yeast does two things for bread leavens the bread and it adds flavor/texture to the bread. The problem is that to properly leaven the bread, yeast needs to reproduce quickly (to produce the gasses inside the bread), and to provide the proper flavor/texture it needs to reproduce slowly. The way around this is to make the pre-ferment or “sponge.” By putting the yeasty mixture into the refrigerator, you slow down the
