A while back I mentioned that I was looking for new home made bread recipes to completely replace store bought sandwich bread. Well, my search isn’t quite over, although I’m making good progress, but I did make a discovery I wanted to share that really makes home made bread possible for almost anyone:
You can freeze the dough!
That’s right. You mix it up. Let it rise once. Divide it into loaves and either let it rise a second time OR put it into ziploc freezer bags and save it for another day. When you’re ready to bake your bread you take it out of the freezer, let it rise in a loaf pan for many hours (It’s taken me about 7 or 8 when I’ve done this.), and then bake it in the oven. It comes out great.
Which means that I can whip up a huge batch of bread dough, bake one loaf, and put another 4 or 5 loaves in the freezer for another day.