My first homemade bread loaf 😊🍞

Hi steemians! Here is my first homemade bread loaf (it was delicious),good taste and texture.😊And if you want to try in your home too, here is the recipe to make this bread loaf.

Ingredients🍞

✔3 cups unbleached all purpose flour
✔2.5 cups whole grain all purpose flour

• Or 5.5 all purpose any flour except whole grain* any more than the 2.5 and bread will not rise with this recipe.... I tried 😞)
  ✔1/4 cup pure cane sugar
  ✔2 cups warm water
  ✔1 package or 2.5 tsp active yeast
  ✔1/4 cup unsalted butter
  ✔1 tsp kosher salt
  ✔1 egg white
• optional-
  Sesame Seeds

Here is how to cook🍞

🔥 Heat oven to lowest temp setting (mine is 170)
-🔥 In a small mixing combine warm water yeast and sugar (stir sugar into water first so it dissolves I find makes it easier to incorporate later) and set aside to let yeast become foamy
-🔥 Melt butter in microwave or over low heat

• 🔥Turn oven off but leave door closed (we want the warmth to rise or dough)
• 🔥Combine flour, and salt in stand mixer with paddle attachment on a low setting
  -🔥 Add butter and yeast mixture to dry ingredients and allow to mix ONLY until ingredients are combined
• 🔥Switch to dough hook and turn mixer to a medium speed until dough ball forms (about 7 mins)
• 🔥Oil a large bowl (glass or metal since it will be sitting in a warm oven) and turn dough out into it
  -🔥 Cover with a clean kitchen towel or plastic wrap
• 🔥Sit in warm oven for about 45 mins or until double in size
• 🔥Cut in two halves of using 8x4 loaf pans or leave whole if yours is a 13x4 as mine is
• 🔥Oil your pan(s) and turn dough into them (this is a no kneed recipe)
• 🔥Press gently to shape and cover with towel or plastic wrap and put into warm oven for another 30-45 mins until risen to top of pan(s)
• 🔥Remove covering and beat one egg white until foamy in a small bowl
• 🔥Preheat oven to 375
• 🔥Score bread and brush with egg white (it won’t get that beautiful color and top without it)
• 🔥Top with sesame seeds (rolled oats or flax seed would also be nice or all 3 😁)
  -🔥 Bake for 25-30 mins until golden on top

Best kept in the refrigerator as there are no preservatives in this recipe and it keeps it soft for longer mine doesn’t last longer than a few days but it should keep 7-10 days in the fridge or a month if frozen

Happy homesteading steemians!😊