I just made this for the first time last week, and my family loves it!
What you'll need:
1/4 cup milk 1 1/2 tbsp. sugar 1 tsp. salt 1 1/2 tbsp. butter 1 package active dry yeast about 3 cups of flour nonstick cooking spray
large mixing bowl spoon measuring cup measuring spoon bread pan hand towel
Warm up the bowl. (just run some hot water in it) Mix the yeast with 1/2 cup warm water.
Melt the butter in the microwave, then add it, the milk, the sugar, and the salt to the yeast liquid and stir it up until everything looks the same (a very light tan liquid). Then add two cups of flour to the mix – don’t add the rest yet.
Start stirring, and then add the flour about 1/4 cup at a time every minute or so. It will stick to the spoon big time at first – don’t worry about it. Keep stirring and adding flour until the dough is still slightly sticky, but it doesn’t stick to your hands in any significant way.
Now comes the fun part: kneading. Take a bit of flour between your hands and then rub them together over the top of an area on the table where you’re going to knead the dough. Do this a few times until there’s an area on the table lightly covered in flour. Start kneading the dough. Do this for ten minutes.
When the ten minutes are up, shape it into a ball, then either clean up the bowl you were using before or get out another bowl. Coat the inside lightly with cooking spray then put the ball of dough inside the bowl.
Put a cloth over the bowl and sit it somewhere fairly warm for 1 hour. (I've been setting mine outside) If you have a warming area on your stove top, that’s a great place to put it – set the warming area on as low as it will go. This is a good time to clean everything else and put the stuff away, but leave the flour out and the floured area on your table untouched.
It should be roughly double the size that it was before, but don’t sweat it too much if it’s larger or smaller than that, as long as it rose at least some amount. Punch the dough down (three or four good whacks will cause it to shrink back down to normal), then lay the dough out on the floured area and spread it out in a rectangle shape, with one side being roughly the length of the bread pan and the other side being about a bread pan and a half long.
You may need to put a bit more flour on it and on the table to prevent sticking. Then, roll it up! The roll should be roughly the same size as the bread pan.
Tuck the ends of the roll underneath, with the “under” side being where the seam is. Then spray the bread pan down with nonstick cooking spray and put the loaf inside of the pan.
Cover that loaf up with the towel, put it back where it was before, for 1 more hour. This is a good time to clean everything up. The loaf should raise some more.
Put that loaf in the oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius) for thirty minutes. When it’s done, pull it out and immediately remove it from the pan to cool. Let it cool down completely before slicing.
Enjoy!
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