Bread Recipies ....so varied !

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I've had a quick look online
One is 500g flour /7g yeast /no fat/sugar
One is 500g flour/7g yeast /olive oil/no sugar
One is 1kg flour/21g yeast .................................

Aargh . I don't eat much bread so it has to be right

If I want a 1lb loaf 500g Strong White Bread Flour / 7g easy blend yeast / 300ml water ..............
Do I need sugar ? I thought it didn't need sugar
Oil/butter?
Salt - does it get dissolved or added dry ?

I want (hopefully) a nicely risen, yeasty , slightly salted loaf . White bread , not a fan of wholemeal

Not for toast , just sliced ,probably with vegetable soup .

It'll be a mixer and bake job, not bread maker .

TIA

Try nigella I find her bread recipes good, and me and yeast just don't get on! Ha I'm rubbish with bread but her no knead white bread recipe is really good

Bbc olive oil bread is my go to recipe. Soft, fluffy with a fab crust.

The thing to do is just try different recipes until you find the best one for you! You don't absolutely need sugar in a bread recipe, but yeast feeds on sugar to rise. Missing out the sugar can slow down the rising or stop it from rising very well at all. I use a breadmaker and the recipe for white bread that came with it, which uses 600g strong white flour, 1.25 tsp yeast, 2tsp sugar, 1.5tsp salt, 25g butter and 400ml water.

I would use your second recipe, ie no sugar and a little oil. Add the salt to the flour and then add the yeast to the other side of the bowl so they don’t touch (salt kills yeast). Then mix together with the oil and gradually add water, mixing it with the flour. I do it my mixer as it’s easier but if knead by hand, be careful not to add too much flour to stop it sticking as this will make your dough too dry.

Try this one - it's foolproof and you get a lovely, soft white loaf:

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/02/sour-cream-sandwich-bread-recipe

The fat in the sour cream makes the loaf soft and fluffy. If using a kitchen mixer, just leave the dough in the bowl in between the 10min mixing. So easy!

I'll need to try one a week and give marks out of 10 .

The first one is a Teco recipe then Good Food then Jamie Oliver .......then there's sour cream in the mix !

No complaints about any of the posts above, but you did request a 1lb recipe and the one you refer to is for a 2lb loaf, so it will overflow your tin. I use a Silverwood 1lb tin which is bigger than other 1lb tins (because it is designed to produce a baked loaf weighing 1lb rather than to produce a loaf made from 1lb wet dough) and I use 350gms Strong White Bread Flour, 225ml water, 3.5 gms yeast (or half a sachet), 1tsp salt and a dollop of olive oil. Grease the tin with butter and dust with flour. 350 gms + 225ml/gms water = 575gms, but you will lose about half the weight of the water in the bake, leaving you with a loaf that weighs around 450gms.

I made the Tesco white loaf , it was very nice . Enough salt and yeast to make it properly "bready" but I think it would have benefited a few extra minutes baking ( I did the tap the base test and turned it upside down at the end )
just ordered a breadmaker (late Anniversary present ) so my Bread Repitoire should expand (like my waistline !)

Actually I don't eat much bread but I'll do some 50/50 for DH and DD , some pizza dough for DS and look at flavoured bread recipes .

I normally use the Jamie Oliver one that's just flour, yeast and salt.

If you're looking at flavoured breads, there's a bacon and cheese recipe in Paul Hollywood's bread book that's pretty flipping amazing.

KIng Arthur flour has a great website, lots of explanations and loads of recipes

It is american, but has proper weights and measures too!

I have worked my way through loads of their site and have some great breads added to my repertoire

One great tip is to use water that you have cooked potatoes in....the starchyness does somethig to the dough and you get a muche nicer texture

Hokkaido or Japanese Milk bread is amazing...but you do need a mixer, it's too wilful to knead by hand.

Italian Supermarket bread is another favourite here now....I don't know why it's called that!

Lots of recipes for proper squishy sandwich slicing loaves, or toasty bread

For an ordinary loaf I use about 400g flour, tsp salt two tbs butter or oil and a tbs of honey or sugar.