My momma taught me to bake this bread when I was just a girl. I still make it every week for my family. My kids call her Mamaw so it’s Mamaw’s Homemade Bread. So simple to make, no fancy nothing, just the basic ingredients, but oh so soft and yummy! 🍞 In the video here I am shaping the loaves and then letting them rise before popping them into the oven to bake. I know the way I spank the dough is humorous but that is how I’ve always done it and it works great to help get the air bubbles out of the dough. 🤣 The goal of this whole process is to shape smooth loaves and get the air bubbles out of the dough so my bread doesn’t bake with big holes in it that lets the butter and jam fall through onto our hands when we’re eating and makes us all sticky. 😄 Mamaw’s Homemade Bread Ingredients: 3 cups lukewarm water 2 tbsp sugar or honey 2 tsp salt 2 tsp active dry or instant yeast 3 tbsp olive oil 6 cups all purpose flour, and more as needed Directions: In a large bowl put the water, sugar, and salt. Sprinkle the yeast on top. Add the oil and stir in 5 cups of flour until it becomes too hard to stir. Now it’s time to knead! Flour your hands to help prevent the dough from sticking to them and continue adding the rest of the flour and kneading until a smooth elastic dough is formed. Test the dough by taking a bit of dough and rolling it between your hands. If it’s sticks to your fingers, add more flour. If it doesn’t stick but becomes smooth and elastic, you have enough flour. Knead for about 8-10 minutes. Cover with a cloth and let rise for one hour or until doubled in size. Oil hands and punch down dough. Pull dough away from the side of the bowl and oil the bowl as you make your way around the bowl. Work dough together and flip leaving it smooth on top. Cover with a cloth and let rise until doubled, about an hour. Form loaves and place in oiled bread pans. Cover with a cloth and let rise for 30 minutes or until doubled in size. Poke the loaf in a corner and if the indent springs back up then it needs to rise more, if it stays indented, it’s ready to bake. Bake at 350 degrees on the middle oven rack for 30-35 minutes or until lightly browned on top and bottom. Remove bread from pans and let loaves cool on a cloth. Butter tops of warm loaves if desired. Yield: 2 loaves #homemadebread #yum #homebaker #Recipe - @myeverydayordinarylife