# Simple White Bread

A simple recipe for making white bread from scratch.

- Total time: 140 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 700 grams all-purpose flour
- quick rise yeast
- 1 teaspoon powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon non-iodized salt
- 2 cups warm water
- pinches cornmeal

## Instructions

1. Add 700 grams of all-purpose flour to the bowl of a stand mixer.
2. Add quick rise yeast, a teaspoon of powdered sugar, and a tablespoon of non-iodized salt.
3. Mix them together with a bread hook.
4. Add two cups of warm water until combined and add a little bit more if you need to.
5. Leave it in the mixer for 5 minutes.
6. Knead by hand until smooth.
7. Cover the dough and let it rest for an hour and a half.
8. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
9. Separate the dough in half and put one half aside.
10. Separate the remaining dough into three portions and put two of them aside.
11. Stretch a portion of dough into a long cylinder.
12. Once you have three cylinders, knead their ends together, braid them, and knead the other ends together.
13. Put a few pinches of cornmeal onto a baking sheet and spread evenly.
14. Put the baking sheet with the bread in the oven for half an hour at 450 degrees Fahrenheit.

## Equipment

- stand mixer
- bread hook
- baking sheet
- oven

## Source

- Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5HMj5AddRk
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/bb6e6778-3d4e-4f24-9425-ea15f71e1496
- Extracted: 2026-01-05

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