First attempt at bread-making without a bread maker. Very easy and delicious. Used a 2lb loaf tin.

Very easy and very tasty! I have made this twice now, once to make a loaf and once to make rolls and have had compliments from all that ate them!

I'm a beginner when it comes to bread making but have made this a couple of times now (following the recipe to the book) - have found each time 2 things that seem to not work as I think they are meant to...:
1. The bread doesn't seem wet enough when all ingredients are mixed so when I knead the bread it cracks/breaks off rather than stretches
2. The bread (after cooking) is rather dense and heavy... which I assume may be due to the problems in the first stage?

Any help would be great.

Cheers

A lovely recipe and very easy. I do a second rise on mine and make it into rolls so I can freeze them and make them last the week.

Excellent recipe and works every time, made it again last night and my son said it was the best bread he'd ever had.

on my second loaf. Accidently threw away the blade to my bread maker and yet to be replaced. Desperate for home made bread found this recipe. Actually prefer the bread and so easy.

Just trying this for the first time today...currently waiting for its second rise! Hoping it's not going to spill over the 2lb loaf tin!

Me & my husband made this bread in a joint effort, it was so easy, we used the kneading attachment on a hand whisk, the only change we made was knocking back after the first rising only because the dough had spilled over the top of the tin, then left to rise again. We was so impressed with the taste, it took less than the 35 minutes to cook. Will definately do this again.

Really pleased with this because it works. What a relief after quite a few disasters in the past. Prefer it to bought bread and so does my family.

The recipe is easy and the breads lush. I even snucked a 100grammes of stone ground flour in and my fussy granddaughter still liked it!

Made this yesterday, and made my sandwiches for work today. Well I must say I am impressed with myself. This is so easy and so tasty. May never buy bread again!!

very easy recipe so far; have got it doing the first rise at the moment (have taken advice of comments and am doing 2 rises). i usually use a breadmaker because i normally get in a right mess making the dough but this was pleasingly non-messy and easy enough to do with my 3 and 4 year old kiddies :)
just wondering, can this recipe be used for all bread 'shapes' like rolls, a big round loaf (not sure of the proper name) and those pretty knotty breads?

the best bread recipe i have tried so far ,really quick and easy and the bread is delish . I found advice in someone else's comment to allow the dough to rise twice very helpful and probably got a better result due to this.I would recommend this recipe to anyone.

Amazing, my first attempt at bread (not good food recipe) was a disaster, my husband is still using it to prop open the door!!! But this recipe was a simply the best. I read other comments and did prove it twice as was suggested by another reviewer and it works. Now can you freeze the dough at any stage?????

A great and easy recipe I used 300 gms wholemeal flour and 250 gms strong white flour. I then whizzed it in my food processor for about 2 minutes and after another 5 minutes of standing in the processors bowl I whizzed it once more for 1 minute.
Finally my bread machine gave up the ghost and I am now converted this way is far better and more energy efficient.

Mervyn - knocking back is when you leave the dough to rise, then knock the air out of it by kneading it and leaving it to rise again. It's best to leave it in a warm place to rise. I usually cover it with cling film, but I'm not sure what the difference is.
I usually make one loaf and 4 rolls (or just 8 rolls), so I use a 1lb loaf tin and a baking tray for the rolls.

I made this at the weekend with seeded flour, it came out fantastic. Really lovely bread. I only put half a teaspoon of honey though as the yeast I bought needed to be activated with a little sugar and thought it would be too sweet! I only had a small bread tin so used the rest of the dough to make seeded bread rolls. Needless to say the whole lot went in one day. My son and husband loved this recipe. So would definitely recommend trying it out!

it doesn't state which size loaf tin to use, What size has other people used? cheer

just signed up to try to make my own bread and other stuff! I'm 62 and got some time on my hands, so trying cooking/baking.
Questions are, what does knock back mean, and do you have to put the bread mix in a plastic bag, or can it just go in the fridge as is? thanks from a complete beginner.

Same as lots of other people: first attempt at breadmaking, a success. No time to read all the comments so not sure whether this has been answered: just wanted to say I used a 1 litre tin which was just about big enough.