When I make homemade bread, I like to make quite a few loaves at once. I don’t have time to make bread more than once a week (and I don’t even make it that often) so I like to have a lot to show for the effort.
This recipe will make 4 loaves. But it’s too much dough for my stand mixer to handle so I make it by hand. I enjoy the process of starting with flour and yeast, then kneading the dough to form loaves. It feels rustic and wholesome and slow. Such a contrast to the rest of modern life.
Of course, nothing compares to pulling hot loaves from the oven and slathering butter over thick slices.
Homemade bread is easy to make, but it does take some time and a little bit of muscle too, if you’re doing it by hand. I’m going to take you through the whole process, so there are a lot more photos in this post than most of my posts.
Tomorrow, I’ll share how to make Whole Wheat Cinnamon Rolls with part of the dough. [Read more…] about How to Make Whole Wheat Bread by Hand