Our Bread Recipe

We've had a couple people ask what recipe we use to make our bread, and since we are all about sharing here at South County Girl, here it is!

We used to make bread by hand but the consistency turned out a lot of times more like cornbread (so a bit crumbly at times). My friend's mom had an old break making machine that THEY NEVER USED so she asked if we wanted it. We had to clean it really well, but we now are the proud owners of a really old bread machine (it even came with a VHS Tape)!

Here's the bread Recipe we use:

• 9oz cold water (use warm or hot is making by hand)
• 2 tablespoons Butter/margarine (if making by hand, you may want to leave the butter out so its really soft) 
• 2 tablespoons powdered milk (this way you don't have to "Scald" the milk)
• 3 cups flower (bread or all purpose)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons of Sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon yeast. (if making by hand, use 2 teaspoons of yeast.)

Since we use the machine, we can just dump everything in there (we use Cold products so the bread doesn't rise too much because then its too fluffy and can't be used for sandwiches.) and press a button for it to bake.

If your making bread by hand, you will want to use warm water and butter, ect so the heat will react more with the yeast to make it rise more. Its also important to put the dough in the container you plan to cook it in, cover it, and let it rise in a warmer place so you don't have the cornbread effect.

We found microwaving some water in the microwave and then setting the dough in there with the water REALLY helped it rise when we were making it by hand (just keep an eye on it and make sure you put it in the container you plan on using to bake with.)

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(we also use this recipe for our Pizza bread (just adding an extra teaspoon of yeast to it, so we use 2 instead of 1). Once the dough is ready, we cut it in half and we have enough to make 2 pizza stuffed bread loafs. If there's interest the next time we make pizza bread I'll post a step by step guide with pictures.