EASY AS 1-2-3 BREAD

Instructions

1. In a bowl, stir together warm water and yeast.
2. Stir until there aren't any lumps.
3. Melt the butter in the microwave, then add it, the milk, the sugar, and the salt to the yeast liquid and stir.
4. Add two cups of flour to the mix – (save the rest for later.) Start stirring, and then add the flour about 1/4 cup at a time every minute or so.
5. It will stick to the spoon.
6. Keep stirring and adding flour until the dough is still slightly sticky, but it doesn’t stick to your hands in any significant way.
7. Also, it should largely clean the sides of the bowl.
8. Rub flour on hands and large cutting board.
9. Take the dough ball out of the bowl, slap it down on the board, and start beating on it.
10. Do this for ten minutes.
11. Just take the dough, punch it flat, then fold it back up into a ball again, and repeat several times. Take it in your hands and squeeze and twist it.
12. When the ten minutes are up, shape it into a ball,then either clean up the bowl you were using before or get out another bowl.
13. Either coat the inside lightly with nonstick cooking spray, then put the ball of dough inside the bowl.
14. Put a cloth over the bowl and sit it somewhere fairly warm for an hour.
15. I used the warming zone on top of my stove, set it as low as it will go.
16. Dough should be roughly double the size that it was before..
17. Punch the dough down (three or four good whacks will cause it to shrink back down to normal), then lay the dough out on the floured area and spread it out in a rectangle shape, with one side being roughly the length of the bread pan and the other side being about a bread pan and a half long.
18. You may need to put a bit more flour on it and on the board to prevent sticking.
19. Then, roll it up! The roll should be roughly the same size as the bread pan.
20. Cover that loaf up with the towel, put it back where it was before, and wait another hour. .
21. The loaf should raise some more:
22. Put that loaf in the oven at 400 degrees F for thirty minutes.
23. When bread is done, pull it out and immediately remove it from the pan to cool on a bakers rack. Let cool completely before slicing.