How to make your own bread at home?

1. Put all the water/yeast, milk, sugar, salt and oil into a large bowl, add 1- 1/2 cups of flour, and start stirring until it is completely mixed, then add 1- 1/2 cups of flour and continue stirring. At this time, the dough will mix the ingredients on it. Now, it takes about 10 minutes to make dough.

2. Knead, press and pound the dough in the bowl repeatedly, which is what we call "kneading noodles". This work is hard, but it must be done in order to form gluten. It takes about 10 minutes to knead the dough (a timer can be set if necessary).

It takes 60 to 90 minutes for the dough to ferment in a warm place. The easiest way to find a warm place is to turn on the oven, set the temperature as low as possible (about 65.5 degrees Celsius), turn off the oven when the oven is heated to this temperature, and then open the oven door for about 30 seconds to release some hot air.

To prevent the dough from drying out, please apply 1 tbsp vegetable oil to the dough, then put this bowl of dough into the oven and close the oven door. The traditional practice is to cover the bowl with a towel, which can also prevent the dough from drying out. At the same time, you need to observe regularly. After about 60 to 75 minutes, the dough will double in volume. This is carbon dioxide produced by gluten and yeast.

Take the bowl out of the oven. The dough will become sticky again, so please wash your hands and put some oil on them. "Press the dough down" means to prepare for baking and squeeze the air out of the dough by hand.

Take the dough out of the bowl. If there is a bread baking tray, please grease it, knead the dough into small pieces, and then put it in the baking tray. If you use a biscuit tray, please knead the dough into a ball or block and put it in the tray. Put the bread back in the warm oven and let it ferment for another 60 to 90 minutes, and its volume will double again.

When the dough volume doubles again, adjust the oven to 176℃ and bake bread for about 45 minutes. When the bread is golden brown, it makes a hollow sound when hitting the crust, indicating that the bread is baked.

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In terms of calories, crispy bread has the lowest calories because it is not sweet and contains less sugar, salt and oil. After baking, the skin is crisp and hard, and it is very delicious when it is hot. French staple bread and Russian "big bar" both belong to this category, and their nutritional value is similar to that of steamed bread.

Materials such as eggs, sugar, milk and grease are added to both hard bread and soft bread, but the water added is different. Children's favorite "toast bread", "cream bread" and most kinds of snack bread belong to soft bread. Soft sweet bread contains about 15% sugar, about 10% oil and more toast. However, due to the addition of eggs and milk powder, the nutritional value has also increased, which is suitable for babies to eat.

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