Toasting Bread

This Toasting Bread recipe creates a dense, sturdy white bread with a tight crumb, making it an ideal candidate for thick, satisfying toast or French toast.

This is a great recipe if you have a smaller oven and can’t fit 4 loaf pans in your oven all at once, because these loaves bake together on a baking sheet.

A light brushing of melted butter in between the loaves allows them to easily pull apart.

The bread is dense, but not tough. I love making French toast from it, because it holds up well.

Slices of this bread will make a smaller sandwich, but again, holds up well to slicing. You can use this bread all sorts of ways.

The recipe makes 4 loaves, but they freeze well. Bake once, and enjoy the bread now as well as later if you like.

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To Make This Recipe You Will Need:

• warm water
• powdered milk
• powdered buttermilk
• instant yeast
• salted butter
• granulated sugar or honey
• salt
• bread flour, unbleached
• egg
• electric mixer with dough hook
• kitchen towels
• baking sheet
• parchment paper
• mixing bowls
• pastry brush
• cooling rack

To begin, pour the warm water into your mixer’s bowl.

Add the powdered milk and buttermilk, room temperature butter, yeast, sugar, salt and 4 cups of the flour. Mix with your dough hook attachment until it begins to form a very sticky dough.

Slowly add the remaining flour, a little at a time, until the dough is soft, but not sticky.

Knead the dough with the hook for about 8 minutes. Form the dough into a ball and place it in a clean, oiled bowl and cover it with a damp tea towel.

Place the bowl of dough in a warm location and let it rise for 1 hour or until it is double in size.

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Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set it aside for now.

Punch down the dough, removing air bubbles. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide the dough into 4 portions.

Roll each portion in to a loaf.

Place the loaves side-by-side about an inch apart on the baking sheet.

Brush the sides of the loaves with melted butter.

Cover the loaves again with the tea towel and let them rise for 20 minutes.

Heat your oven to 425°(F).

Brush the tops of the loaves with beaten egg. *

Bake the bread in the lower half of your oven for 30 minutes or until golden brown.

* If you wish to sprinkle on a topping, such as everything bagel seasoning or sesame seeds, then half way through the baking time you will brush the loaves a second time then immediately sprinkle with the seasoning. Bake the remaining half of the baking time. If you add it at the beginning, the seasoning may scorch.

When the bread is done baking, carefully slide the loaves and parchment paper onto a cooling rack and cover with a clean tea towel. Cool completely.

Enjoy!

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