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by Hans Meyer (Author)
The recipe for bread has been known to mankind since the Neolithic times. Interestingly, the preparation of bread for many nations has hardly changed since then. Baking bread is both simple and challenging. Everyone knows how to bake bread, how bread is made, but not everyone has delicious bread. The recipe for delicious bread is simple - it must be made from good flour and in a good mood. Every nation has recipes for baking bread. The bread recipe is about the same everywhere, all of them are based on flour and water. This is the simplest bread recipe: you knead the flour with water - and you bake bread.
A recipe similar to this is still used by primitive peoples. Flour can be different. The most popular is wheat flour, but bread is made from rye flour, bread is made from corn flour, and wheat-rye bread is also made. To make the bread fluffy, the dough can be leavened. Most often yeast is used for this, it turns out the so-called. yeast bread.
Bread without yeast is more difficult to make, but it is considered to be healthier. Yeast-free bread can be made in two ways: using sourdough or using soda water. The sourdough bread recipe is old and more laborious. Yeast-free sourdough bread is made from wheat germ or hops. In addition, you can make bread with kefir, bread with kvass or beer. The bread does not end there. Bread can contain a variety of ingredients, from seeds and dried fruits to eggs and meat.
Wheat bread, white bread, rye bread, black bread, Borodino bread, French bread, Italian bread, sweet bread, custard bread, bread in an egg, bread with cheese - all types of bread are innumerable. Someone likes a recipe for white bread, lovers of black bread will choose a recipe for bread made from rye flour.
Many people love rye bread. Homemade rye bread with a crispy brown crust smells especially delicious. Make one time rye bread at home and it will make you forget about the bread section in the supermarket.
A homemade bread recipe can use both baker's yeast and sourdough. A homemade bread recipe always leaves room for your imagination for additional ingredients. Add nuts, dried fruits, spices and herbs to the dough of your choice. Homemade bread can be baked in an oven or a special bread maker. Homemade bread in the oven can be made by literally everyone. The oven bread recipe is virtually the same as any other bread recipe. Of course, there are some subtleties that will help you learn how to bake bread in the oven correctly. First of all, successful baking of bread at home in the oven is, of course, largely dependent on your oven. The bread dough should stand for 10 to 15 hours in a warm place. The bread is baked in the oven at 180-250 degrees. After an hour and a half, baking the bread in the oven will be complete. And it's quite easy to bake bread in a bread maker.
