The Perfect Loaf for Beginning Bread Bakers
This is my most popular bread recipe, which I've been baking for 11 years. It was originally published on A Year in Bread, a joint baking project Beth, Kevin, and I started back in 2007. Our year is long since over and we've closed down that site, so I'm slowly moving my bread recipes over to Farmgirl Fare.
There were over 170 comments on the original Farmhouse White post (many from nervous novices who are now confident bread bakers), and hopefully one of these days I'll be sharing the most helpful ones in a separate post, which I'll link to here once it's up. In the meantime, you might find my Ten Tips on How To Bake Better Artisan Breads at Home helpful.
I also explain how to shape bread dough into sandwich loaves and offer some more bread baking tips in this post. And you'll find links to more bread recipes in the Farmgirl Fare Recipe Index.
A classic, flavorful white bread made with real milk, not dry milk powder.
This really is a very simple and easy recipe, so don't let all these paragraphs scare you away. I wanted to carefully explain each step and answer the questions I'm often asked about making this bread, so the instructions would be clear to beginning bakers.
I also included a lot of the helpful little things I've learned during the many years I've been baking and perfecting this bread. Enjoy!
Have you been longing to learn how to bake your own sandwich bread? My simple Farmhouse White is the perfect place to start.
It's a traditional loaf that's nice and soft, but not too soft. It's great for just about any kind of sandwich and brings peanut butter and jelly (a staple in our house) to a whole new level, especially if you treat yourself to some nice organic peanut butter and jam. It's wonderful toasted, smells heavenly while toasting, and makes an awesome
BLT.
This is the kind of old-fashioned, homey bread that a few people were lucky enough to grow up eating, and everyone else wishes they had. It's wholesome and filling and about as far from Wonder Bread as a basic white sandwich bread can get. I've watched people who claim they never eat white bread gobble this stuff up.
