5 Easy Amazing Bread Recipes for Beginners • Esme Salon (2024)

Ingredients

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• 3 cups all-purpose flour (add extra if still sticky) Robin Hood Blending flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon yeast
• 1 1/2 cups warm water (1 cup tap water and 1/2 cup boiling water)

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1. In a bowl, stir the flour, salt, yeast, and water until combined.
2. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rest at room temperature overnight. I leave it overnight, thus anything up to 17-19 hours.
3. Turn dough out onto well-floured parchment paper and form a ball, and let it rest for 30 minutes.
4. At this point, place an oven-safe baking dish (with a lid) and with high sides into the oven and preheat to 450 degrees.
5. Wet your fingers with tap water, and gently and ever so slightly wet the top of the dough and sprinkle some coarse salt on the bread.
6. When you take the baking dish out of the oven, open and lightly spray it with some non-stick.
7. Once ready, just before you place it in the oven, slash an “X” on top of the bread.
8. Now carefully pick it up and transfer the dough to the piping hot baking dish and cover.
9. Bake covered 30 minutes. Uncover and bake for another 15 more minutes until you have
   a perfect and nicely golden-brown crust.
10. Cool before slicing.
11. You will end up with the best crust and fresh bread.

Prepared, tried, and testedEsme Slabs

Ingredients

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• 5 cups cake flour
• 1 pkt instant yeast
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons sugar
• 125g butter
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup milk – warm
• 3/4 cup water – lukewarm

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1. Mix all dry ingredients.
2. Place butter in warm milk to melt.
3. Cool a bit. Add eggs, as well as the dry ingredients.
4. Add lukewarm water a little at a time whilst kneading until the dough is the correct consistency.
5. Allow rising till double in size. This will depend on the weather and where you reside. In the summer this will go way faster than whilst cold.
6. Once doubled, then knock down the dough, and form 6 long strips, and plait the dough.
7. Let is rest and allow rising again.
8. Brush with beaten egg wash.
9. Bake 180 degrees C until golden brown and done for +- 30 to 45 minutes.
10. Enjoy

Prepared, tried, and testedUrsula Andrews

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Ingredients

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• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 cup lukewarm water
• 2 tsp instant yeast

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1. Sift the flour.
2. Add salt, yeast, oil, and water.
3. Combine to make a soft dough.
4. Knead for 5 minutes.
5. Place in a bowl, cover with cling wrap.
6. Leave to rise for an hour.
7. Then gently punch it down and break into 6 pieces.
8. Roll into 6 even-sized balls.
9. Cover, leave to rest for another 30 minutes.
10. Roll out very gently
11. Roll into about half a cm thickness.
12. Cook on a hot non-stick pan or Thawa.

Prepared, tried, and testedJennifer Govender Bisnath