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Simple Soft Sandwich Bread {New} 🍞🍞 No Knead, No Mixer, No Sugar, 6 Ingredients
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Friends, hello. Last week I mentioned I had been working on a soft sandwich bread recipe and hoped to be able to share it soon... here it is! It's a no-knead, 6-ingredient recipe that takes about 5 minutes to stir together. Thanks especially to my oldest daughter, who brings a turkey sandwich to school for lunch nearly every day and who has no reservations sharing her opinions, the recipe has gone through many iterations these past few months. It started with the basic bread ingredients: flour, water, salt, and yeast. In an effort to make it softer for sandwiches, I added some olive oil. When my daughter told me the bread didn't hold up very well — that it began breaking down by lunch time — I began researching. First I added honey, then I added milk, then I took away the honey, and finally I swapped in melted butter for the olive oil. The loaves made with a mix of water and milk, butter and no olive oil, and no sweetener at all tasted the most like the sandwich bread I was after: soft but sturdy and well seasoned but not sweet. Depending on your timeline, you can use more or less yeast — I've been in the habit of using 1/2 teaspoon (2 grams) and employing a long, slow overnight rise, but if you need to speed up your timeline, there are notes in the recipe on how to do so. As always, I am here if you have any questions. Hope you love it 🍞🍞
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Hi. I'm Ali.
Bread enthusiast. Vegetable lover. Omnivore. If the kitchen is your happy place, you're in good company. Let's hang.
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