How To Measure The Ingredients

Baking can be a fun thing to do, especially around the holidays. It's not difficult to make a loaf of bread, even if it's your first time doing so. Get all of your ingredients together. For a regular homemade loaf of bread, you will only need flour, water, (or milk) salt, yeast, sugar and butter or vegetable oil for the fat.

1. Since you will have wet (liquids) and dry ingredients, you will need measuring cups and spoons. You can also use a digital kitchen scale for dry ingredients.
2. Use a measuring spoon to measure the yeast and put it in a large bowl.
3. Turn on the water and feel it until it gets to room temperature. Having the water at room temperature is very important because the yeast will work better. Get a measuring cup and allow the exact measurement to the fill line. The water should be poured in the same bowl as the yeast. Stir the yeast and the water together.
4. Get the milk, sugar, salt and oil and mix them together. Put them in the bowl with the yeast mixture and stir.
5. Put the flour (whatever measurement the recipe calls for) lightly in a measuring cup using a spoon. Level off the capacity with a knife and get rid of any access. The flour should not be packed in.
6. Place one cup of flour at a time in the bowl. Knead the dough until it has a smooth texture. You can add additional flour to keep the bowl and the dough from sticking to each other.
It is important that the ingredients are measured exactly as instructed. If they are not measured correctly, your bread may not turn out right. It could rise too high or not rise enough. Or your bread may have a tough texture, being difficult to eat.
This comes from putting too much flour in the mixture. You can also have a loaf that is not sturdy enough to hold its own because you did not put enough flour in the mixture.