Sourdough Sandwich Bread | The Easiest Bread You'll Ever Make

today i am going to show you how to make my family's favorite sourdough sandwich bread [Music] hey everyone and welcome back to my channel i share a bunch of sourdough recipes here on this channel everything from an artisan loaf that requires stretching and folding and timing all the way to enriched breads like brioche and even recently on my blog and youtube channel i shared a sourdough hawaiian sweet roll recipe sometimes when it comes to sourdough it can be confusing and i know that whenever i first learned how to make sourdough bread instead of doing a whole different style of bread baking with my artisan loaves i actually just did the same kind of bread that i was so used to making in my kitchen with regular yeast but then just swapped out the yeast for sourdough starter and although over the years i have found that i enjoy the process of artisan sourdough loaves the stretching the folding the scoring making these beautiful loaves on a regular basis my family craves just a simple loaf that you can put in the mixer allow to rise just a basic sandwich loaf is something that i like to have in my arsenal for certain occasions if you're going to be having a picnic or if there's someone in your family who isn't used to the texture and taste of a cast iron dutch oven baked loaf they might be more receptive to a simple sandwich loaf so let's dive in to the recipe and i can show you just how easy it is to whip this up every night before bed if that's something you want to have in your regular rotation it doesn't take a whole lot of thought but this does yield a wonderful everyday bread just like with any bread recipe that you are using wild yeast so sourdough instead of using packet yeast you want your starter to be active as you can see here i have a bubbly starter this one i fed about four or five hours ago i usually sit my starter in this middle section here of my stove because there's pilot light so it's a nice warm spot if it's winter time you can set it several feet away just make sure it's not too hot from a wood stove or just anywhere you can find one location if you can't you can of course just wait a little bit longer but what you're looking for is lots of bubbles that's how you know that the yeast is active and ready to give some lift to your bread now i'm just going to use my kitchenaid mixer with any recipe you can need by hand i definitely prefer the dough hook because whenever i'm doing a more hydrated dough if i'm not doing stretching and folding it takes a while for it to come together so if something seems like like a brioche or any of the wetter doughs that it's not coming together it looks really sloppy the longer i do find that eventually it comes together and that is the case with this particular recipe okay i'm starting with a cup of bubbly active starter i need a new cup measure that has a handle it fell off a while ago and i just haven't replaced it what a mess next i'm going to add two tablespoons of honey you can also use sugar if you don't have honey with these sandwich loaves adding sweetener like this makes them a little bit softer [Music] next i'm going to add a tablespoon of salt i'm always ready to refill my salt [Music] and two and a half cups of water don't use water that's too hot it can kill the yeast that are active in your starter also ideally you're using filtered water or if you have good well water that doesn't have you know chlorine that's good too and then a half a cup of butter or coconut oil that's been softened i went in my fridge and realized we didn't have a whole lot of butter i don't have time to make any right now so i'm gonna do almost a half a cup that's butter and then the rest of it is going to be coconut oil you can just throw it in like this or you can cut it up a little bit like i'm doing here this will just help them to incorporate a little bit better i got about six tablespoons i'll probably throw about two tablespoons of oil [Music] we'll take a quick break from this 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market dot com forward slash farmhouse on boone it'll also be linked in the description box below although all you really need for bread is yeast some kind of yeast whether it's starter or packet yeast flour and water and salt it's really all you need it's nice to add things like oil and butter because again it makes it soft this will have that texture that you're used to getting in sandwich bread all right next i'm gonna add my flour i just have an unbleached all-purpose here if you're interested in a whole wheat i have that here on my youtube channel i will link it down below as with anything whole wheat it won't be as soft and fluffy i should have mentioned up front this recipe yields two loaves of bread i like to at least make two at a time especially when you're not using your dutch oven you can fit them in your oven and get it out of the way for a couple days i'm going to do about eight cups of flour now i like to add about six or seven first see how it all comes together and if your starter is super hydrated you might need a little bit more flour but if it's not you might need a little bit less i am a huge fan of simplifying sourdough for some of you that drives you crazy you want scales and measures and you don't like whatever i dip my cup measuring like this and just level off with my hand but i am telling you if sourdough intimidates you i might be just the person for you to follow because it always turns out great it might not turn out like the absolute best prize-winning bread but it's perfect delicious sustenance and that's my goal because i want to simplify it so that you actually do this i hope i haven't lost count i think i've done four all right and i got five in there i'm just gonna let it start kneading while i add in the rest all right i'm definitely gonna go for that eighth cup now i do think that this would eventually come together but i'm not looking to make something that's this hydrated i want to keep it simple and easy to work with so i'm going to add that a cup of flour which almost is always the case all right this has been kneading for about 10 minutes and it still just doesn't have the developed feel that i like it's getting there but if i stretch the dough you can see here that it doesn't really stretch it stretches but it starts to break apart that's not what you want and so i'm just gonna keep kneading it until it gets there [Applause] i let it go a little longer and here is where we are so see how it it stretches more but it's still not as smooth as i want it to be it's still very shaggy which means it would still work yeah delicious a couple loaves of bread but just from experience of baking bread i know that this is not quite the smooth and elastic dough i'm looking for so i'm gonna keep going all right this looks like it's coming together better i'm liking it stretch oh it's almost there on the window pane test a lot of times when i'm baking bread i like to get my hands wet and just manipulate the dough a bit just to make sure that it has this smooth stretchy feeling to it it's not 100 necessary but my goal in telling you all of this is to help you get the feel for what a good elastic dough feels like i missed this for so long in my bread baking journey and in the beginning i definitely didn't need enough i read online that you can over knee don't i'm sure that you can but i found through my years of experience that it's actually quite difficult and some doughs do a lot better when they're needed more so for example my brioche i was telling you about earlier in my hawaiian sweet rolls when i finally figured out the feel of the dough that i was going for this glossy smooth feeling i started needing those particular recipes for like 30 minutes i would just put my mixer on set it back and go watch a tv show or hang out with my kids or whatever so my encouragement to you is just keep making more loaves and eventually you'll get the feel for it okay all right i'm just gonna get this dough into a greased bowl i like to grease my bowls just so that the dough doesn't stick to it and i'm going to set this out of the way and forget about it for about 10 to 12 actually what time is it right now it's three o'clock in the afternoon so it's going to really be more than that it's going to be more like 16 18 hours let's make it more fermented if you're trying to get your family used to the taste of sourdough you might want to do less time because it'll be more sour i'm going to get in here i'm going to cover it with some foil so that way it's airtight and we're going to film on top you can also do a tea towel that's wet but it'll dry out if you're doing a long fermentation time like i am you could also do a beeswax wrap or plastic wrap works as well all right so i told you that i was gonna let that ferment for 24 hours usually i make this before bed that's what i always do but i needed to make this video in the afternoon because i didn't want it to be dark on camera so i normally make this before bed let it rise in the morning i do all the rest of the steps but i let it ferment on top of my stove which is way too warm for a 24 hour ferment and i ended up with over fermented dough that basically happens when you let dough firm it too long it loses all of its structure it turns into a gloppy sloppy mess so i quickly turned that into fry bread [Music] so [Music] do [Music] so that way i wouldn't waste that dough and then proceeded on with this recipe so don't let it over ferment learn from my mistakes all right back to the rest of this recipe after i've done that first long fermentation bulk rice i'm going to divide the dough into two flatten it out and then roll it up to shape the dough add it to prepared loaf pan so you can either just do some butter or coconut oil or you can line it with parchment as well and then allow it to rise again until doubled this will vary by the temperature so if it's really warm this could take an hour to or it could take up to four or five after that second rise you can optionally do an egg wash so for this i like to do an egg yolk mix a little bit of water brush it on this just makes it golden and beautiful in color and then bake it at 375 degrees for about 45 minutes this bread is perfect if you're doing a picnic it is very recognizable to someone who isn't used to your homemade creations it looks like store-bought bread it feels like strawberry bread definitely the sour taste if you know how long you left from it but your family is going to love it right well thank you so much for watching this video make sure to check out all of my sourdough recipes i have everything from sourdough bagels to chocolate sourdough bread to buns and biscuits and rolls and everything in between here on this channel and on the farmhouse on moon blog so if you're looking for printable versions of these recipes you can go to farmhouseonmoon.com scroll all the way to the bottom or click the jump to recipe button and then click print so for this sandwich bread i have a printable version that you can just keep in your kitchen and reference until you have it memorized thank you so much for stopping by our farmhouse [Music]

Channel: Farmhouse on Boone

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Length: 15min 33sec (933 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 09 2022