# Bakery Style Sandwich Bread

This recipe guides you through making bakery-style sandwich bread at home with simple steps.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 160 ml lukewarm water
- 7 g instant yeast
- 2 tbs honey
- 140 ml lukewarm milk
- 50 g melted butter
- 1 tsp salt
- 450 g bread flour

## Instructions

1. Whisk the water and yeast together.
2. Whisk in melted butter and milk.
3. Mix in the flour and salt really well.
4. Scrape the bowl and cover and rest for 20 minutes.
5. Wet your hand, grab some dough and do five stretching folds, turning the bowl after each one.
6. Flip the dough, fold it in half, cover and rest for 20 minutes.
7. Repeat the stretch and fold process, flip it over, fold it in half, cover and rest for 40 minutes.
8. Once it's done, flour the top of the dough in the work surface.
9. Turn the dough out like this.
10. Flour your hands and very gently from underneath, slightly stretch the dough out.
11. Fold over one third, then the other third, and roll it up, pressing your thumbs down after each roll.
12. Do it all the way to the end.
13. Flip the dough over and start sealing it up.
14. Push each end in with your finger and squeeze the dough together to seal it.
15. Do the same on the other side and then all across the top.
16. Flip the dough over, place it seam side down in a well-greased tin.
17. Sprinkle with flour, cover and rest while your oven heats up.
18. Preheat oven to 180°C and put a dish with water at the bottom to heat up the oven and create steam.
19. After 45 min bake for 10 min at 190°C with the water in the bottom.
20. After 10 min turn the oven down to 170°C and bake for another 25 min.
21. Place the tin on a cooling rack and leave the loaf to cool in the tin for 20 min then take it out and place on a wire rack.

## Equipment

- bowl
- whisk
- dough scraper
- loaf tin
- oven
- cooling rack

## Tips

- Be patient when turning out the dough; it will take a few minutes for it to drop, which helps create a light and fluffy dough.
- When stretching the dough, do it gently from underneath to keep some air in.

## Source

- Original video: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSAYaN8Hp/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/0593cd33-7355-4bfb-9c49-87223be9ac3c
- Extracted: 2025-08-20

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