Home Baked Bread

Bread delicious bread, freshly baked from the oven, is a treat, with a crusty outside and fluffy in the middle. What you need is only beautiful quality butter to spread it on.   Home-baked bread is so perfect to be enjoyed the day it is baked. But the leftover is excellent for toasts.

One slashed celery bread

Another shape of celery bread

The last bread baking in my kitchen was a lovely celery bread, it is not available in the shop of course, because it's my own creation.  I was brave enough to do it, and it worked very well.

These are the ingredients, plain flour, cooked celery, yeast, water, oil and salt.  Some poppy seeds for sprinkling.

The process

The Dough after ten minutes kneading

The dough is in a bowl and placed in a warm place to rise.

After shaping, they need to rise for the second time -25 minutes
and need scoring/baking in a very hot oven.

They are ready to be baked, glazed with egg white, and
 scored-slashed /sprinkle with poppy seeds

Freshly baked bread-they are golden brown and sound hollowed
 when they are tapped

Scoring: scoring the loaves adds more than a decorative touch, it also allows gas to escape without bursting open the seam and disfiguring the bread. 

a curve razor blade

for scoring bread

Use a serrated knife.  Or a baker's lame, a curved razor blade to cut diagonal slashes.  Work quickly, cutting about 1/2 cm deep.  Immediately transfer loaves to the hot oven.

The loaves had a hard crust, and soft in the inside, it was so delightful to be served with butter.  It was successful baking.

The bread was perfect for toast the next day.

The toasted bread

I am afraid I could not share the recipe yet, as the right quantity of the ingredients was not recorded.  But I will do it one day.

People Say: There is nothing like the beautiful smell of baking bread in the kitchen.  There is nothing quite like warm, fresh out of the oven home baked bread.
Freshly baked bread is one of Life's greatest simple pleasures.

It is very economical too to have home baked bread, especially if you need a lot of bread in your diet.  Basically, it is effortless to do, and the ingredients are simple and readily available in shops.

Baking bread is a treat for me, I like to work with the dough, and the anticipation of the outcome, is it right? Or is it wrong? 'the surprises'.  In the older posts, you could find some bread baking; from quick bread (without yeast), and yeast bread - olive bread to brioches.

Until Next Post

Susy