You can’t get better than fresh, homemade bread! Give me that and a block of butter and I could probably live on the stuff!

This recipe is a basic, beginners white bread recipe, really easy and will always turn out amazing! Even if you go wrong somewhere…chances are you will have something edible and tasty at the end of it.

I use a 2Ib loaf tin for this recipe. If you want to make something which resembles a loaf in a packet, from the supermarket, I would suggest you do the same, but the loaf tin is purely for shape. If you were to bake it flat on a baking tray it would be absolutely fine and still taste amazing…it would just be round and as posed to ‘loaf’ shaped.

Now remember this is only the start of the bread journey…there’s a whole world to bread learn!…the only way is up from here! Watch this space!

Ingredients…

• 500g strong white bread flour
• 2 tsp fine salt
• 7g or one sachet of dried yeast
• 2tbsp or a couple of good glugs of olive oil
• 2tsp sugar
• 300ml warm water

Method…

1. Put your flour and salt in a big bowl, give it a little mix and make a well in the centre…
2. Put your yeast, olive oil and sugar into your jug of warm water, give a mix and leave for 30 seconds…
3. Now pour your water mixture into the flour bowl and slowly mix and bring together…
4. Once together – knead the dough until smooth and supple – around 10 minutes…
5. Place your dough in a bowl and cover with a towel until doubled in size…
6. Knock back, then place in your 2Ib loaf tin
7. Cover and leave for another 30-40 mins to prove until doubled in size
8. Bake for 30-35 mins until as golden brown as you like