An Amazing Loaf of Bread

I have made a lot of things in my day...but I have never baked a loaf of bread in the oven. I have made it in the breadmaker, but today my friend inspired me to begin baking bread. I am glad she did. This bread was super easy to make and it turned out awesome. It is not the healthiest recipe I found, but it was easy and turned out well. I did substitute one of the cups of flour for wheat flour so that helped.

Ingredients

• 1 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 (.25 ounce) package bread machine yeast
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 3 cups bread flour
• 1 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Place the water, sugar and yeast in the pan of the bread machine. Let the yeast dissolve and foam for 10 minutes. Add the oil, flour and salt to the yeast. Select the dough option on your breadmaker.
   

This usually takes 90 minutes or so.

After it is ready....put the bread in a pan and then let it sit to rise again for another 30 minutes.

After it's second time rising.....it is ready to bake.

Bake at 375 for 35-40 minutes. If it starts to get to brown....add aluminum foil to the top and it will help it. Mine cooked for 35 minutes and was perfecto!!!

Corn Bread by Elaine Peterson

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup corn meal
2 cups flour
2 tbsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cups milk

Mix well with hand mixer or your mixer.
Bake in a greased 9 x 9 pan at 350 for 45 minutes.

Scone Dough and Cinnamon Rolls

2 tbsp. dry yeast
1 1/2 cup warm water

Mix these two ingredients together

Then add 2 2/3 cups warm water to your mixing bowl
Add 1/4 cup sugar

Let this part of your recipe get frothy and bubble up.

Add 9-10 cups of flour
Add 3 tbsp. oil
Add 1 tbsp. salt


Let it sit and use this to make yummy scones.

To turn this into cinnamon rolls do the following:

Roll out, put melted butter on top, add cinnamon and sugar, cut into squares and bake at 350 for 20-30 minutes.

Chelsea's Healthy but Tasty Rolls

Makes 24 rolls

Note, you need a bread maker to make this dough. Unless you are an expert dough maker and you probably don't need one.

Amount	Measure	Ingredient and Preparation Method
1 1/2	Cup	warm water
2	TB	applesauce (in place of oil)
2	TB	Honey (or whatever sweetener you want, or no sweetener)
2	Ea	egg whites, beaten lightly (or you can omit this. I've done it both ways)
3	Cups	Whole Wheat Flour
2	TB	Vital Gluten
2	TB	powdered milk
1/2	Tsp	Salt
1	tsp	Bread Machine Yeast

Place the water, salt, applesauce, and honey into the bread machine container. Lightly beat the egg and add it. Add whole wheat flour and vital gluten. Add this mixture to the bread machine container. Make a depression into the flour and add the yeast to the very top. Process using the dough setting on the machine (takes about 90 minutes).

Divide dough into whatever size rolls you would like, round them into balls, and place in muffin tins in warm oven (lowest temp possible). Allow to rise for about 20 minutes with a paper towel or kitchen cloth on top (sprayed w/ nonstick spray so it doesn't stick). It will almost double in size. Bake at 350° for 14 to 16 minutes. Allow rolls to cool on rack...or just eat them right away.

little tips:

After the first 5 minutes of the dough cycle, correct the dough by adding either 1 Tablespoon of flour or 1 Teaspoon of warmed water, to achieve a dough ball of even consistency. This may not even be necessary.

Another way to let the dough rise: turn oven to 400 for two minutes, then turn OFF, and put rolls in to rise.

Flour your hands to work with the dough.

Weight Watchers Points, 2 pts. a roll, makes 24.

Yummy and Healthy Banana Bread by Heather Perkins

1/2 Cup Applesauce (In place of oil, if you are really skinny, use oil)
3/4 Cup sugar
2 beaten eggs
3 ripe smashed bananas
1 tsp. lemon juice
1 cup white flour (You can use all white flour if you want)
1 cup wheat flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt

Cream applesauce and sugar, add eggs, lemon juice, and smashed bananas. After mixing these together, add flour, baking soda, and salt. It says to sift these ingredients, I never use a sifter, but you can if you want.

Bake in two loaf pans at 375 degrees for 30-35 minutes. It will look dark, and keep checking it, because my oven takes less time to cook it than 30 minutes.

Weight Watchers points, 2 points a muffin...Makes 20 servings.

Easy Breadsticks

This is the easiest recipe! And the are SOOOO good.
1 1/2 cups warm water
2 TBSP Sugar
1 TBSP Yeast

Let that sit for 5 minutes.

Then add:

3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp Salt

Mix until smooth and let sit for 10 minutes.
Roll out dough on a floured board, make sure that you have a lot of space to work with when you are rolling these out, or just use half of the dough to start with.
Brush with melted butter and garlic and then sprinkle with salt.
Fold in half and cut into 1 inch strips. Twist before placing on a cooking sheet.
Let sit for 15 minutes.
Bake at 400* for 7-10 minutes (a few minutes longer if baking on a stone)
Immediately after baking, brush with more garlic butter and sprinkle with salt and grated parmesan cheese.
(Supposedly they are better if you use real butter and kosher salt.)

This recipe was taken from a recipe blog that I found.

These taste almost exactly like the ones that they serve at the Pizza Factory in Utah.