Almost Sourdough Bread
| Categories: | Bread |
| Submitted by: | Bethany Meierdiercks |
| Preheat: | 350 |
| Serves: | 12
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| Prep time: | 3 hrs |
| Cook time: | 35 min |
| Total time: | 3 hrs 35 min |
Makes 2 9x5 loaves of bread
Ingredients
| 2 1/2 cups | warm water, divided |
| 3 tbsp | instant mashed potato flakes |
| 3/4 cup | sugar |
| 2 1/4 tsp | dry yeast |
| 1/2 cup | oil |
| 1 tbsp | salt |
| 6-7 cup | bread flour |
Steps
- The night before: mix one cup of warm water (110-115 deg) with potato flakes, sugar and dry yeast in a bowl. Cover and let stand at room temperature overnight
- Next day, add 1 1/2 cups warm water (110-115 deg), 1/2 cup oil, salt and stir into yeast mixture.
- Add flour into this mixture, stirring until smooth and well combined.
- Cover and rise in a warm place for about one hour or until double in size.
- Punch dough down and turn out onto lightly flour surface Divide dough in half and lightly knead (6-8 times) and shape into loaves
- Place dough into two 9x5 pans that are lightly sprayed with cooking spray. Cover and let rise until doubled in size
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Uncover loaves and bake in preheated oven for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown. Rotate loaves halfway through cooking time.
- Remove from oven and cool on wire racks for 15 minutes. Carefully turn out onto wire racks to finish cooling.
Note
Allow to completely cool before slicing or wrapping to store