There are few things as pleasing as putting a ball of dough into the oven and watching it rise into a delicious loaf of bread. The smell of freshly baked bread fills your house, you slice into it and add your favorite spread, then dig into a tasty and warm piece of bread that is absolutely irresistible.
Sadly, most people won’t get to experience something like this because the majority of people just buy their bread from the store. Unless you’re lucky enough to live near a great bakery, there’s a good chance that you’ll be stuck eating bread that’s wrapped in plastic on a regular basis. But with that said, making your own bread is a totally viable choice–one that more people should be exploring!
Homemade bread is a lot cheaper than store-bought bread
Bread is made from just a few ingredients. In most cases, all you need is some flour, salt, yeast, and water. That’s it–just four simple ingredients that almost everyone will have in their home. Sure, you might not have yeast in your home right now, but that stuff is easy to store and you can buy it cheap at any supermarket that you go to. The other ingredients, such as flour and salt, last a really long time in your home and can be bought in bulk. This means you’ll always have the ingredients in your kitchen to make bread, but it doesn’t need to stop there. You can also get more fancy with your bread and make more complicated and delicious things. These ingredients are just for a plain white loaf of bread, but you can start introducing more interesting ingredients to make things like sourdough or olive bread.
In short, if you want to save a bit of money and get higher-quality bread, then making it by yourself at home is one of the best options.
Homemade bread is easier than you think
A lot of people are scared of the idea of making their own bread because they think it takes a long time or requires a lot of skill. However, the reality is that making your own bread is simple, straightforward, and really doesn’t take much time. While there is a bit of waiting around, most of the active time spent in the kitchen is easy and fairly short.
Learning how to make bread at home is simple, and you’ll be surprised at how straightforward recipes are. Most of the time you’ll simply be mixing all of the ingredients together into a bowl, kneading it for a while by hand (or with the help of an electric mixer) until the dough is the right texture and consistency. Then you leave it to rest for a while so that it doubles in size, and then you give it one final knead to smooth out the ball of dough before baking it.
That’s really all it takes! You spend perhaps 10 to 15 minutes kneading a ball of dough, then you bake it in the oven, and you’ve got a delicious loaf of bread waiting for you! The recipes are easier to customize, and it creates something so tasty that it’ll put you off store-bought bread for good!
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