Ingredients:
3 to 3 ½ cups all-purpose
flour
1 ¼ teaspoons
salt
¾ tablespoons
instant yeast
1/8 cup
sugar or honey
1 ½ cups
very warm water
1/8 cup
neutral-flavored oil (like grapeseed, canola, vegetable, avocado)
Butter for
top of loaves, optional
Instructions:
In the bowl of an electric stand
mixer (or in a large bowl, if making the dough by hand), combine half of the
flour with the salt, yeast and sugar.
Add the water and oil and mix with
the dough hook until combined. The mixture will be thinner than bread dough.
With the mixer running (or stirring
by hand), gradually add the rest of the flour, until the dough comes together
in a ball. Knead on a surface for about
2 minutes until the dough is smooth.
Lightly grease a large bowl.
Transfer the dough to the prepared bowl, cover with greased plastic wrap or a
light kitchen towel, and let rise until doubled, for about an hour.
Lightly punch down the dough and
divide it into two equal pieces.
Grease two 8 1/2-inch by 4 1/2-inch
bread pans.Press each piece of dough into a
thick rectangle about 8-inches long; roll it up, pressing on the seams, and
pinching the final seam together. Place the dough loaves into the
prepared pans.
Cover with lightly greased plastic
wrap or kitchen towels and let rise until doubled and the dough has
risen about 1-inch above the top rim of the pan, for about an hour. While the dough rises, preheat the
oven to 350F.
Bake the bread for 30-32 minutes
until golden.
Remove from the oven and turn the bread out onto a wire rack. Immediately brush the tops of the loaves with melted butter.
Let the bread cool completely and
enjoy! Slice the bread and prepare sandwiches or French toast.
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