Basic White Bread

While hip hoping through blogs i did find this recipe on Hema's Simple Spices Blog http://simplyspices.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/basic-bread-recipe/ .. Was really easy and the bread came out so soft ... Enjoyed the smell of baking fresh bread at home..

I used the same recipe as her's.. So here is the recipe:

Ingredients :
1 cup room temp water
2 tsp.(2 pkg(each 14 oz)) Active Dry Yeast
2 Tbsp. Sugar
2 Tbsp. Vegetable(or) any cooking Oil
1 tsp Salt
2 cups All Purpose Flour

Method :

• Dissolve sugar and yeast in warm water.. (If water is too hot it would kill the yeast resulting in unrised dough).. So be sure the water is at room temp.
• Allow yeast to rise for 15 min. The yeast mixture would turn frosty
• Mix all other (Flour,Salt,and Oil) ingredients
• Add yeast mixture and make dough gently since yeast is live culture.
• Make sure you knead the dough really well.. 10 to 15 minutes
• Cover the dough let rise until doubled in size, about 1 hr.
• Punch dough down; Cover it and let rise until doubled in size,about 1 hr again.
• Keep dough in Bread/Loaf pan and allow it to rise to double the volume again.
• Bake for 35 to 45 min in a preheated 350 degree Fahrenheit oven.
• Remove from pan. Cool on wire rack.

Enjoy tasty fresh home made bread..