Homemade Bread

By tonya370

Mom bread

Ingredients

• starter
• 3 cups warm water
• 3 tbls. sugar
• 4-5 cups flour
• if start several months old, I add small (1/4 tsp or so) yeast with warm water

Preparation

Step 1

combine in bowl, cover with clean dishtowel and let rest in warm location overnight. I like to cover my bowl with parchment paper (to prevent dough from sticking to towel) and rest in oven with the oven light on.

In the morning, stir down dough. Remove starter. Sprinkle starter with small amount of sugar on top. Cover and refrigerate when starter begins to bubble. Add 2-3 tsp salt to remaining dough. Add flour until unable to stir. Continue to add flour and knead in bowl until you can turn it out onto breadboard. Knead bread while continuing to add flour as needed to prevent sticking. Place dough in warm greased bowl, cover and let rise until double. Punch down, turn over and let rise until double. Put in buttered and floured pans and let bread rise until double. ( I use four small loaf pans, can use two regular sized loaf pans or make rolls) Bake at 400 degress 20-25 minutes. Brush with butter at last five minutes baking time.

***For cinnamon rolls, roll out to 1/2 inch. Mix melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Pecans, raisins and orange zest optional. spread on dough. Roll, cut, rise and bake as usual.
Frost.