on Mar 22, 2020, Updated Jul 12, 2021 36 Comments Looking for more easy bread recipes? I think you’ll love my angel biscuits, cornbread recipe, and this 4-ingredient, no-yeast Irish soda bread. Lately, Bart has made as much of the bread (if not more!) than I have in our house! While it has always been his thing to make cinnamon rolls at Christmas and cornbread and Southern buttermilk biscuits in the Dutch oven on camping trips, he’s gotten even more so into bread baking lately. He’s been making Challah bread for French toast for camping trips when I don’t make it ahead and to make his own sandwich bread from scratch, among other things. It is like he has a mental list of bread recipes he wants to master; he works and works the recipe until he has it just the way he wants it, and then he moves on to the next. Thankfully, he continues to make those that he’s been successful in making, like his sandwich bread recipe while working on the others on his list.
About the Ingredients
His sandwich bread recipe uses ingredients that I generally keep on hand, simple ingredients of flour, yeast, butter, and milk, that when worked just right turn into the best thick-cut slices of bread for sandwiches, toast and even French toast. Milk – the milk gives the bread a soft texture and enhances the flavor of the bread. You will want to warm the milk to 100º – 110º F. Do not exceed 110º F. Yeast – the yeast works to help the bread rise. We prefer to use Instant Yeast. Instant Yeast is sold in small packets or in jars at most grocery stores and online. It does not require proofing; however, I still proof it just to be certain (you can never be too careful, right?). If you do not have Instant Yeast, you can also use Active Dry Yeast as a substitute in an equal amount and still follow step one of the instructions for proofing yeast. Butter – the butter helps to feed the yeast in the bread as well as provides flavor to the bread. If you do not have butter, you can substitute an equal amount of oil in the recipe. Salt – the salt not only adds flavor to the dough, but also slows the rising time of the dough which strengthens the dough. Sugar – the sugar helps to feed the yeast within the bread and strengthen the dough. You can also substitute honey in place of the sugar, if you prefer. Flour – you will find many homemade bread recipes that recommend using bread flour. For this recipe, we prefer to use all-purpose flour. It is the flour that we always have on hand and always produces a delicious bread in this recipe. If you have bread flour and prefer to use it, you can. You’ll use the same amount called for in the recipe. You will notice that the bread has more “chew” to it.
What Equipment is Needed to Make Homemade Sandwich Bread?
While we use a Pullman loaf pan for baking our sandwich bread, you could also use two regular loaf pans, if you’d like. For the pullman loaf pan, we leave the cover off of the pan to get a nice, rounded and crusty top on our sandwich bread. However, you could definitely use the cover for square sandwich bread.
How to Store Sandwich Bread
Store in a breadbox or under a cake dome as you enjoy it for up to a week.
How to Freeze Sandwich Bread
Store in an airtight, freezer-safe bag. Carefully remove as much air as possible as you seal the bread. If you do not have a freezer-safe bag, wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and then again foil. Store in the freezer for up to 6 months. Here’s Bart’s Sandwich Bread Recipe. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do! Happy bread making!Robyn xo
