Easy bread recipe for beginners

[RonB]

King Arthur Flour has tons of recipes and they recommend this one to try your hand at baking bread. It's very easy and fairly quick from start to finish. I do recommend that you gather all the ingredients and measure them out before mixing.

[Steve B]

Hey RonB checked out that recipe. Looks pretty simple. I'm thinking of giving it a whirl. The weather is pretty crappy here today.
1 question. Are they using a hand held blender or a table top mixing bowl?

[RonB]

Sorry - we left for a folk festival today right after I posted this. I think they probably used a stand mixer at King Arthur.

[Steve B]

OK. Done. Looks pretty good. Smells really good. After it cools down I'll give it a try.
Thanks RonB I have to believe in recipe they use a stand alone mixer. My hand held one wasn't to happy. If everyone here keeps giving me new ideas I'm going to have to get a bigger kitchen. That's going to hurt. Lol

[Steve B]

Duh. A picture.

[RonB]

Wow! That's a great looking loaf Steve B .

[Histrix]

When it comes to easy bread recipes I think it is hard to beat Lahey's No-Knead approach - http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread

[Steve B]

Its definitely denser than white bread and has almost no flavor but for a first try not too bad.

[RonB]

Steve B - The fact that's denser is probably why it's called toasting bread. Have you tried it toasted with butter and jam/jelly?

[Steve B]

RonB that's the first thing I did. Toasted with butter. It was good but dense. I'm gonna try it w/grilled cheese and also as a triple decker,turkey bacon and cheese. I'll let you know what I think.

[RonB]

OK - here's the recipe I use for sandwich bread and hamburger/hot dog buns. We almost never buy bread - I make everything from scratch, except rye bread, (I haven't found a great recipe yet).

[Atalanta]

That looks like a great loaf of sandwich bread.

[gwschenk]

I've been making sandwich loaves from the white bread variation 3 from The Bread Baker's Apprentice. Using the sponge gives it very good flavor. It has a good shelf life as well.