Making a crispy bread yourself requires only a few ingredients. In addition, it can be tailored to your taste and is significantly healthier than many breads purchased. The basics of baking bread with a recipe and many variations.
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Fresh homemade bread definitely tastes best. Photo © Shaiith / iStock / Getty Images Plus
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In Switzerland there are more than 200 different, common types of bread that are not only served for breakfast. Most of the time we use the bread we buy or the bread we bake. You can bake crispy bread easily and sometimes much healthier yourself, even without a bread maker or baking mix.
With this basic recipe you bake your own bread
The standard bread recipe basically corresponds to that for farmhouse bread. Ruchmehl or wheat flour of type 105 contains many parts of the good grain and tastes really good when freshly baked. Therefore, both are ideal for baking bread. Here is the basic recipe for your own bread, which you can adapt to your own personal taste with a variety of ingredients.
Ingredients to make this bread yourself:
- 1 kg of flour or type 1050 flour
- 42 g fresh yeast
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 – 1.5 tablespoons of salt
- 620 m of lukewarm water
Mix the dough for the bread and let it rest
For the bread dough first Put the flour and salt in a large bowl – If you knead the dough with the food processor, you can use the corresponding bowl – and into the Press a hollow in the middle, Then the fresh one Crumble the yeast in a cup, a Add a pinch of sugar and fill with lukewarm water, In it Stir yeast until it is dissolved, This Pour the mass into the trough and dust with some flour, Now the whole thing remains covered with a cloth in a warm place for a good 15 minutes stand. This activates the yeast.
Now the content is either in the food processor, with a mixer and dough hook or by hand kneaded into a dough, While stirring or kneading, gradually pour in the remaining water and Knead until the dough is smooth and no longer sticks. This can take around 10 minutes. Since each flour is different, you may need to add a little more flour or water in spoons until you get the right consistency.
Subsequently cover the bread dough with a cloth and let it stand until the dough has about twice the volume, How long this takes depends on the yeast and the composition of the flour. 2-3 hours should be enough. You can also leave it there overnight. The longer walking time makes the bread a little looser.
Bake the bread in the oven and enjoy
When the dough has risen nicely, take it out of the bowl and knead the bread dough again briefly on a floured surface, Now you can put it as a single, large bread on baking paper or divide the mass beforehand, so that two small rolls are made. Let it rest covered on the baking sheet for another 15 to 30 minutes,
Now it’s time to bake bread. For that Preheat the oven to 230 degrees, A small Place a heat-resistant bowl full of water on the bottom of the oven, the Brush bread with water, Cut the bread about an inch deep in some places,
The Place the tray with the bread in the oven on the middle shelf, After 15 minutes, reduce the temperature of the oven to 200 degrees, Your own creation should be finished after 40 – 45 minutes. If two or more rolls have been formed from the dough, reduce the baking time by about 15 minutes.
Tip: The home-made bread is sure to be ready after it has finished tap test consists. Take the bread out of the oven with an oven glove, turn it and knock on the bottom. If the bread sounds clearly hollow, it’s done. Otherwise, bake again with the remaining heat of the oven for a few minutes.
Baking bread with dry yeast?
The SRF tested various baking yeasts in the “Kassensturz” program. Fresh yeast always passed the test better than dry yeast. The baking result with fresh yeast is simply better. However, you can of course also use the appropriate amount of dry yeast for the recipe.
Bake your own favorite bread
When you bake bread, you can change the recipe in countless ways. You can easily create your own recipe by adding your favorite grains. Pumpkin seeds, sunflower and sesame seeds or flax seeds can be mixed perfectly with the dough.
If you prefer crunchy instead of crispy, onion pieces and healthy nuts are an exciting addition to the dough. In the south, on the other hand, you bring dried tomatoes or olives into your bread.
If you like experimenting, you can make your own mix of flour. Wheat flour can be replaced in whole or in part by spelled flour as well as rye flour. Just try out what tastes best to you personally.
With other types of flour, however, be careful about their properties. For example, if you work the dough for too long in the last short kneading process with spelled flour, the end result can quickly mutate into a flatbread rather than become a loaf of bread.
Bake bread with sourdough
If you have the time and would like to try a sourdough bread with homemade sourdough, you will find a recipe for a healthy sourdough bread here. We have some tips on how to prepare and store the dough so that you can use the so-called bread dough for as long as possible. You need to allow around 5 days to prepare the sourdough.
Bake bread without yeast
Whether spelled bread or English scones: there are some exciting recipes for bread without yeast. It is worth trying it out. By the way: the sourdough can also be prepared and baked without yeast.
More recipes for fresh bread
Tip: If you are looking for even more inspiration, we recommend the book “Baking bread as few can” by Christine Metzger and Elisabeth Backpacker. The two authors not only provide fine recipes in the book, but also tell about the history of baking bread and the preparation of traditional pastries – of course always with great pictures.
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