Homemade bread is comfort food in this especially difficult time. One yummy great recipe is Racheal Chandler’s Italian bread.
Here are the steps to making this tasty bread.
Put in a medium-size glass or metal bowl, stir and let stand 10 minutes.
1 cup warm water
2 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 package of yeast
After yeast mix is foamy, add and mix:
2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
1 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoons black pepper
2 tablespoons Olive oil
2 tablespoons Chandler’s Sandhill honey
Add:
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cups white flour
Mix, adding more wheat flour as needed.
Dough needs to be soft but not overly sticky. Dump out on a floured surface kneading 3-5 minutes and form a ball. In a glass bowl, put 1T Olive oil. Put dough in bowl turning to cover with oil. Cover and let rise 1 hour. Punch down and reshape to a ball place on parchment paper let rise 45 minutes. Place a baking stone in oven heated to 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Pull from oven and place dough on the stone (keeping on parchment paper} bake 25 minutes.