We were able to go out to dinner to the "new" restaurant in town..."Texas Roadhouse" and if you have ever been there, you know they provide you awesome bread at your table. This must have insprired us to pick this receipe this week. Do you think it takes hours to make bread? Why does hardly anyone ever make there known anymore? This has got to be the easiest non work intensive impressive looking receipe for bread. We will see how it goes! Oh and we are going to make it even easier by using a bread machine.
Ingredients:
4 Tbs sugar
2 Tbs butter (melted)
3 tsp salt
1 1/2 c hot water
2 Tbs yeast
5 cups of flour
Directions:
Put all ingredients but the flour into a mixer and let sit a few minutes or so. Add the flour in small batches & mix with a dough hook for 8-10 minutes. Remove & place in a bowl that has been greased & let dough rise until double in size (about 30 min) Punch down & divide in half in 2 rounds and place on greased cookie sheet. Cut decorative slits on top. Let dough rise again. Rub an egg white wash ( 1 egg white + 1 Tbs. water) over the top and sprinkle with kosher salt. You can add dried rosemary & Parmesan here. Bake at 400 degree for 17 - 20 minutes.
NOTE: For the first time, we decided make 1/2 a recipe or 1 loaf. And we also made the dough in the bread machine. The ingredients need to added into the bread machine in this order for this to work: water, butter, salt, sugar, flour and the yeast last!
Tupps Tidbits ~ I was the baker of this one, not Tupps but he did help me with the order of to which to put the ingredients in the bread machine. This is very important. Also, there are endless herbs you could chose to add to the bread before baking.
We were surprised by the amount of yeast this recipe called for, but it is correct. Basically it makes the bread rise that much faster. What makes this recipe special is that is it quick & tastes wonderful. We are making this one a KEEPER!
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