Easy 4 Ingredient Bread Made With Fresh Milled Flour
My family absolutely loves this easy 4 ingredient bread made with fresh milled flour. I make this bread quite often as both baguettes or in a loaf pan. It works great in either form. This bread tastes like an Italian bread loaf, especially when formed into a baguette. I have a special place in my heart for this recipe. To make this easy 4 ingredient bread, I don’t count water as an ingredient, as most have access to water. This will give you 2 loafs that can be shaped or baked in a bread tin.
Ingredients
- 1& 1/2 cup warm water (350g)
- 1&1/2 tsp salt
- 3 TBSP Olive Oil
- 3&1/2-4 cups freshly milled flour (460g) I grind 2&1/3 cup of hard white wheat
- 2& 1/4 tsp instant yeast (1 packet instant yeast)
Instructions
- Mill the flour
- Warm your water, and pour it in your mixer
- Add the salt and olive oil, mix
- Next, add your flour. Mix to incorporate, then I like to let it sit for about 10 minutes. This allows the fresh milled flour to absorb the water.
- After the 10 minutes, add yeast, then start kneading on level 2.
- Knead for about 10 minutes, and do the window pane test. (See below about the window pane test)
- If the window pane test fails, (it breaks easily) Keep kneading until it passes the test. I have had it take up to 25 minutes, so don’t be discouraged, and don’t try to rush this process!
- After the dough passes the test, cover and let it sit room temperature for about 1 to 2 hours.
- Next, take the dough out of the bowl, and onto a work surface or table.
- I like to lightly oil my table instead of using extra flour.
- Push the air out of the dough and flatten it.
- Divide dough into 2 equal portions, then shape your dough as you prefer. See my video for shaping
- Cover and let rise for about 40 minutes, or until it passes the “Poke” test (See below for poke test)
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F
- Spray your loaf and oven with water, and bake for about 25-30 minutes, or until your dough reaches at least 190 degrees F.
- Remove from pan right away (be careful not to burn yourself) and let cool. Enjoy!
Video
Notes
You can use other grains to make your flour, I have experimented with many combos, I will elaborate on further down below.
This bread could be made with regular flour, but the amount of flour will need to be adjusted.
***Italian Bread Version - I will use this exact recipe, but I will use 3/4 cups of Kamut berries(180g) and 1&1/2 cup of hard white wheat berries (280g), instead of ALL Hard White Wheat.