Italian Bread - no bread machine required
D o you love the smell of freshly baked bread? Well, y ou can have it at your own ho me too ! Here's a simple recipe for Italian Bread . It's soft inside , and has a light crust outside. Y ou don't need a fancy bread making machine for this... it 's fairly easy to prepare the dough and bake this bread. In a small bowl , add active dry yeast into 1 cup of water and set aside for about 10 min utes. In a big mi xing bowl, add bread flour, sugar , and fine sea salt . Ge ntly mix them with a spatula. Add yeast mixture into the bowl and gently mix the ingredients together. Keep 2 small bowl s beside you. One with 1/2 cup of water, and the other with 1 and 1/2 tables poon s of water. Add in a little b it of flour an d water to your big mixing bowl . Using your hands now (ensure that your hands have been thoroughly c leaned), begin to fold in some flour and water a little bit at a time, and gently knead the dough until the dough is n't very stic