I firmly believe that people need to learn some basic skills, such as how to make bread. This is the bare minimum we need to teach others to learn. Here’s the deal: If you can make bread, you can save money on groceries. Yes, I understand people have gluten issues. I feel terrible for them.
If I didn’t make bread for Mark and me, our grocery bill would be so much higher. I’m so grateful my mother taught me how to make bread in our kitchen many years ago.
I remember watching her stir the yeast mixture and dough with a wooden spoon and rolling out the dough on a lightly floured surface. I still remember how excited I got when the loaves came out of the oven and were placed on the rack. I took it one step further and taught myself to make cinnamon rolls, as well as many other things.
I recently wrote a post outlining why families need to learn how to make homemade bread. I received so many positive comments that I thought it was time to update this 2019 post, allowing new readers to access the easy homemade bread recipes and start making their own delicious bread. Please don’t feel intimidated, it’s easier than you may think.
Easy To Make Dinner Rolls For Two
If You Can Make Bread, You Can Survive
If you can make bread, you can survive almost any situation. Last week, I talked about filling your pantry slowly. The week before that, I talked about making bread. Today I am sharing some of my recipes for bread, rolls, cinnamon rolls, and more.
Remember, we have to have fresh ingredients to be successful in making bread, including fresh yeast. Please remember, bread making takes practice and a good recipe, combined with fresh ingredients. You can make bread and the best rolls in the world if you follow these tips, I promise.
This means the yeast must be good. I only use this one: Saf Instant Yeast, 1 Pound Pouch. I keep the amount I use weekly in my refrigerator in an airtight container. The rest goes in my freezer. I store at least five packages at a time unopened in my freezer.
Some people like active dry yeast or rapid-rise yeast. This Saf Instant Yeast has always been reliable for my bread-making efforts.
I Love Hard White Wheat for Bread
Call me nervous Nellie, but I can’t be without yeast to make my bread and various rolls. When I make my whole wheat bread, I only use hard white wheat, and I purchase it from Lehi Roller Mills. For years, I’ve ground my own wheat, and the hard white wheat seems to work the best.
I pick it up when I am in Lehi, Utah, or I buy it at Costco when they have it in stock. I use this wheat gluten: Wheat Gluten, and this dough enhancer: Dough Enhancer.
When I make my whole wheat homemade bread recipe, I always use wheat gluten and a dough enhancer. If I don’t, the bread will be too heavy and dense for my taste. I prefer a light and fluffy whole-wheat loaf of bread. I use the same dough recipe for whole wheat rolls.
I Like to Make White Bread Too
When I make my white bread recipe, cinnamon rolls, dinner rolls, French bread, hamburger rolls, and other breads, I use bread flour exclusively rather than all-purpose flour. I buy it in bulk from Costco in 25-50 pound bags and only buy what I’ll use in 9-12 months, so I know it will be fresh each time.
The flour will go rancid after that, and my bread will not rise as it should. I know I can hear some of you say, “I have had flour for years and I still use it.” I’ve made bread for years and have learned the flour will go rancid, trust me. I really want you to have a great experience when learning to make bread.
The bread won’t rise if the ingredients aren’t fresh. One thing about my recipes is that you don’t have to use dough enhancers, but I use them because they make my bread and rolls really soft and fluffy.
These are the one-pound loaf pans I use for my bread making: Fat Daddio’s Anodized Aluminum Bread Pan, 7.75 Inch x 3.75 Inch x 2.75 Inch.
Make Bread, It’s Easy
Once you learn to make bread, you’ll realize you can make bread and love doing so. It’s easy, I promise!
No-Fail Whole Wheat Bread Recipe:
No-Fail Whole Wheat Bread Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 Cups Warm Water
- 2/3 Cup Olive Oil
- 1 Cup Honey
- 2 Tablespoons Dough Enhancer
- 2 Tablespoons Wheat Gluten
- 2 Tablespoons Salt
- 2 Tablespoons Saf Instant Yeast
- 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice
- 14 Cups Whole Wheat Flour
Instructions
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Start adding the ingredients in the order shown above with one exception into your mixing bowl…start with 7 cups of flour and slowly add more flour until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. I use a Bosch Mixer.
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I grew up making bread without a mixer, it can be done by hand. I grew up letting my bread rise twice so I still do that. Old habits are hard to break!
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I mix it for 10 minutes in my Bosch. Cover with greased plastic wrap until it doubles in size.
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Punch down and form dough into eight one-pound loaves or less if your bread pans are larger. I let the dough rise one more time with greased plastic wrap.
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Bake the bread at (350°F) = 176°C) degrees for 27-30 minutes. If your pans are larger you will bake your bread longer. You will love making whole-wheat bread, I promise!!
French Bread In One Hour
How To Make French Bread In One Hour
Ingredients
- 2-1/2 cups hot water
- 4 teaspoons SAF instant yeast
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon Real Salt
- 6 cups white BREAD flour or freshly ground hard white wheat
- egg whites (lather loaves with a brush after first bread rise/cut 4-5 shallow cuts on top of loaves)
- sesame seeds or poppy seeds (optional sprinkle on egg whites before the 2nd bread rise time)
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to (400°F) = (204°C) degrees.
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Mix everything in the order shown except the egg whites and optional seeds. Knead for about five minutes in a bread mixer.
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Let rest for 15 minutes covered.
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Shape the dough into 2 loaves and place on a greased cookie sheet.
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Lather the tops of the loaves with the egg whites, and cut four to five shallow slices/slits on top of the loaves. Next, sprinkle seeds if desired.
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Let rise one more time for about 15 minutes covered with greased plastic wrap.
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Remove the plastic wrap. Preheat the oven to (400°F) = (204°C) degrees and bake for 25 minutes.
No Fail-Cinnamon Rolls
Cinnamon Rolls-No Fail Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 Teaspoons SAF Instant Yeast
- 1/2 Cup Water
- 2 Cups Warm Milk
- 1/4 Cup Olive Oil
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1-1/2 Teaspoons Sea Salt
- 4 Teaspoons Dough Enhancer
- 2 Eggs
- 6-7 Cups White Bread Flour
- 1/2 Cup Softened Butter (1/4 cup for each rectangle of dough)
- Cinnamon-cover the dough with the desired amount of cinnamon. I use a lot of cinnamon!
- 1 Cup Brown sugar (1/2 cup for each rectangle of dough)
Instructions
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First, in a large mixing bowl, whisk together the yeast, warm milk, olive oil, sugar, sea salt, dough enhancer, butter, and eggs.
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Next, add half the flour. Then, keep adding the flour gradually until the dough pulls away from the sides of the mixing bowl.
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Cover your mixing bowl with plastic wrap and place the bowl with the dough on the countertop. You want to let it rise for about an hour.
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After an hour, remove the dough from the bowl. Punch the dough down and roll it into two 12” by 18” rectangles.
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Lather each 12" by 18" rectangle dough with softened butter. Each rectangle will need about 1/4 cup. Add your desired amount of cinnamon on top of the dough. Then, sprinkle 1/4 cup brown sugar on EACH 12" by 18" rectangle of dough.
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Roll the dough tightly into a tube. Then, cut it into 1-1/2-inch rolls. Tuck the "tail" under the cinnamon roll. Place the rolls on a greased cookie sheet and cover them with greased plastic wrap and let them rise one more time for about an hour or until the dough doubles in size.
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Finally, preheat your oven to (350°F) = (176°C). Then, bake your cinnamon rolls on a greased cookie sheet for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown.
Make The Frosting
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Frost your cinnamon rolls while they are still warm so that the frosting melts on top of them.
Notes
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- Use soft butter. The secret to super tender cinnamon rolls is the butter! You want very soft butter, but not melted butter. Take it out and set it on the counter a few hours before you start the recipe.
- Do Not scoop the flour with the measuring cup! Flour packs tightly so if you use your measuring cup to scoop it, you will use too much flour and your rolls will be dry. Instead, use a spoon to scoop the flour into the measuring cup, and then scrape the excess off with a butter knife.
- Use room temperature butter for the rectangles. When lathering with butter before adding the cinnamon, it’s best to use room temperature butter rather than melted butter. This prevents the cinnamon and brown sugar from seeping out of the sides. Use the back of a spoon to gently spread the soft butter on the dough.
- Don’t overbake the rolls. Your cinnamon rolls should be a golden brown. If you overbake them, they will not be as soft and moist as you would like them. Check them after 15-minutes of baking.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1- eight-ounce cream cheese softened
- 3 to 3-1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1-2 teaspoons vanilla
Instructions
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Cream the butter with the cream cheese and slowly add the powdered sugar to the thickness you desire. Add the vanilla until blended.
White Bread For Two-No-Fail
White Bread: 2 Loaves
Ingredients
- 1 cup warm milk
- 2 tsp. SAF instant yeast
- 2 tsp. dough enhancer (optional)
- 1 egg
- 1/8 cup oil-I use olive oil
- 3/4 tsp. sea salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup warm water
- 3 to 3-1/2 cups white bread flour
Instructions
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I start with a Bosch bread mixer, although you could make this in a bowl. I put the yeast, warm water, salt, oil, and sugar in the bowl.
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I then add the eggs and lightly mix them in the Bosch so the egg does not “cook”.
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Then I add the warm milk and flour slowly. I continue to add flour until the bread dough pulls away from the sides of the Bosch bowl.
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Then knead the dough for about 7-8 minutes. I place the dough in a greased bowl and cover with plastic wrap.
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Let the dough rise until it's double the original size. Then punch down the dough and make it into loaves and place these in greased pans (this recipe makes two-1-pound loaves).
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I let it rise once again (using the same plastic wrap) until doubled in size.
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Remove the plastic wrap and bake them at (350°F) = (176°C) degrees for 27-30 minutes. I lightly butter the tops of each loaf after baking and remove them from the pans.
Notes
- I start with a very large skillet and heat the oil one to two inches deep until I can spritz a few drops of water into the oil ever so carefully, then I know it’s hot enough.
Whole Wheat Bread For Two-No-Fail
Whole Wheat Bread For Two
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups warm water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 cup or so of honey
- 1/2 tablespoon salt
- 1/2 tablespoon SAF instant yeast
- 1/2 tablespoon dough enhancer
- 1/2 tablespoon wheat gluten
- 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3-1/2 to 4 cups whole wheat flour
Instructions
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Start adding the ingredients in the order shown above with one exception into your mixing bowl…start with 2 cups of flour and slowly add more flour until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. I use a Bosch Mixer.
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I grew up making bread without a mixer. It can be done by hand. I grew up letting my bread rise twice so I still do that. Old habits are hard to break!
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I mix it for 10 minutes in my Bosch. Cover with greased plastic wrap until it doubles in size.
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Punch down and form dough into two one-pound loaves. I let the dough rise one more time with greased plastic wrap.
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Remove the plastic wrap Bake the bread at (350°F) = (76°C) degrees for 27-30 minutes. If your pans are larger you will bake your bread longer. You will love making whole-wheat bread, I promise!!
Dinner Rolls
Dinner Rolls-No-Fail
Ingredients
- 4 Teaspoons SAF Instant Yeast
- 1/2 cup Water
- 2 Cups Warm Milk
- 1/4 Cup Olive Oil
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1-1/2 Teaspoons Sea Salt
- 4 Teaspoons Dough Enhancer
- 2 Eggs
- 6-7 Cups White bread flour Add 1/2 of the flour and then add more until the dough pulls away from the sides of the mixing bowl
Instructions
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Place all of the ingredients in order into your mixing bowl. Be careful with the eggs not to add the warm milk too slowly or you will have scrambled eggs.
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Add half of the flour and keep adding the rest of the flour until the bread dough pulls away from the sides of the mixing bowl.
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Cover with greased plastic wrap and let rise the first time for about an hour.
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Punch the dough down and mold it into small balls about 1-1/2 inches to 2 inches in diameter.
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Cover with greased plastic wrap and let rise one more time about an hour or until double the size.
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Remove the plastic wrap and bake at (350°F)= (176°C) degrees for about 15-20 minutes on a greased cookie sheet. Do not overbake.
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They should be golden brown. I spread a little butter on the tops after baking so the rolls are soft on top. If you like a crispier top you can skip this step.
Easy To Make Breadsticks
Breadsticks Fluffy and Delicious
Ingredients
- 4 Teaspoons SAF Instant Yeast
- 1/2 Cup Water
- 2 Cups Warm Milk
- 1/4 Cup Olive Oil
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1-1/2 Teaspoons Sea Salt
- 4 Teaspoons Dough Enhancer
- 2 Eggs slightly beaten
- 6-7 Cups White Bread Flour
- 1/4 to 1/2 Cup Melted Butter
- Garlic Salt
- Parmesan Cheese
Instructions
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Place all of the ingredients in order into a Bosch Bread Mixer or a very large bowl to mix and knead by hand. The recipe calls for 6-7 cups of white bread flour…you add flour until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
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Knead by hand or machine for 8-10 minutes. Cover with greased plastic wrap and let rise until double in size.
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Roll the dough out after the first rise and cut with a knife or pizza cutter into desired shapes.
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Dip in melted butter and place onto a greased cookie sheet.
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Sprinkle with garlic salt, parmesan cheese, or any desired seasoning of choice.
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Cover with greased plastic wrap and let rise once more. Remove plastic wrap and bake at (350°F) = (176°C) degrees for 12-20 minutes depending on the size of breadsticks you make. Do not overbake. Serve warm right out of the oven.
Hamburger Buns
Hamburger Buns
Ingredients
- 2-3/4 cups flour – I use bread flour
- 2-1/2 tablespoons SAF instant yeast
- 1 teaspoon of sea salt
- 4 tablespoons butter softened
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 2/3 cups parmesan cheese-grated
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 egg
- 2/3 cups water
Instructions
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Combine the ingredients in the order shown above into your Bosch or Kitchen Aid Mixer with a dough hook. This is by far the easiest recipe to make hamburger or hot dog buns (depending on how you shape them).
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I add more flour until the mixture pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Cover and let rise with some greased plastic wrap for about one hour. Remove plastic and evenly divide the dough into 6 balls.
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Roll each ball, tuck the edges under, and place on a greased cookie sheet. Flatten each ball to about 3-1/2 to 4 inches wide.
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Cover the rolls with plastic wrap and let rise until double. Remove plastic wrap and bake at 350°F) = (176°C) degrees for about 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
If you are looking for bread bags for storing your bread, these are the ones I buy: Bread Bag – 100-count/ Includes 100 Cable Ties.
I’ve started using a bread-making machine again instead of using a stand mixer or my Bosch. I use the machine to mix the bread, but I still cook it in my oven. The brand I use is Zojirushi. I have a great friend in Florida whom I introduced to making bread a few months ago, and she now has one as well. She loves it and makes bread or rolls for her family almost every day.
If you want to have a unique experience, consider making bread in your Dutch oven. It’s fun to cook outside or in your regular oven.
Some Fun Ways to Use Your Homemade Bread
Sure, you can use your bread to make those standard sandwiches for a school lunch or to pack for work. But don’t forget, homemade bread is delicious when making French toast, grilled cheese sandwiches, bread with soup, or just a slice with warm butter, jams, and jellies. We’ve grown to love garlic bread, and have also added some spices or other add-ons for a unique artisan bread option.
Final Word
Please learn how to make bread; it’s really easy to do if you have fresh ingredients. I’ll personally walk you through it every step of the way if you follow the instructions shown, along with the special tips given. Let’s teach the world to be self-reliant, cook from scratch, and love doing so! May God bless this world, Linda
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