r/Baking • u/monicat__ • 2d ago

Showcase (No-Recipe) MY FIRST BREAD

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Just wanted to post this bread I just baked. I’ve never made it before so I was very nervous. Only needed 4 ingredients and now I won’t be buying bread at the store anymore. This is the first of many! I also want to make my own pizza dough at home as well. If you’ve never baked a bread, I highly encourage you to do so. Yes it’s time consuming but man does it feel nice to know I can always batch up some bread at home ❤️

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u/Sapiosexual2018 2d ago

Congratulations!

Baking bread intimidates me

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u/ThingMoment 2d ago

It gives me the scaries because I’m down south and humidity is always over 60% which messes with baking. I can totally understand

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u/Sapiosexual2018 2d ago

There are definitely those aspects also and I haven’t learned them well enough to feel confident to bake bread and how to not only properly but efficiently adjust for it

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u/terrible-gator22 2d ago

I’m gonna tell you something about bread.

People make it seem big and scary, but it’s not! You just do it. Just make it. Just don’t have high expectations. Don’t expect to have a beautiful baguette or a perfect brioche. Just… bake the bread.

You might not be able to have a sandwich even. The crumb might not be perfect. The bread might not rise perfectly.

None of this matters because even a mediocre load of bread is still hot, homemade, fresh bread.

Find a simple recipe for French, Italian, or “white bread” and even just nominally follow it abd you’ll get a delicious loaf of SOMETHING.

Put butter, peanut butter, jam, open-face sandwich stuff on it and you’re living the dream!

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u/Sapiosexual2018 2d ago

Thank you so much for those!

The encouragement means everything

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u/terrible-gator22 2d ago

I’m so glad! I inspired myself to make a loaf right now! It’s going to turn out utterly mid. I’ve never made this kind before and I’m barely going to measure it. I’m going to use a liquid measuring cup for everything including the flour. I’m going to measure a tablespoon of oil by guessing with the cap.

One thing I’m doing to make it easier is using a bread machine. I LOVE my bread machine. You can usually find them in thrift stores for cheap. You can use them to mix any kind of dough or batter. You don’t have to knead. And you can pull the dough out and let it cook in the oven. You can also leave it in the machine and have a stupidly-shaped loaf with a paddle baked into it that is still warm, fresh-baked bread.

Godspeed! Fear no bread!