Soft white bread

READY IN: 1 hr 20 mins

YIELDS: 1 loaves

INGREDIENTS

• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour / white bread flour ( 300+ 100g)
•  1 tablespoons yeast (or 1 x 7g )
• 1 teaspoons sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cups  warm-hot water (45 celcius)
• 30g milk powder (optional)
• ¹⁄8 cup  cooking oil
• Put 2 cups (300g) flour, yeast, sugar, salt into a large bowl. 
• Pour in hot water and oil and mix until it combined. It will be sticky.
• Add the remaining flour (~100g) in increment until the dough is no longer sticky. 
• HKnead about 5 minutes until dough is elastic and smooth. 
• Put the dough back into the large bowl and cover with a damp tea-towel and let it rise until double it’s size~ 1/2 hour.
• Punch it down. Roll piece long enough to fill oiled loaf pan and leave it rise until the dough has reached the rim of the pan. 
• Bake at 200 celcius for 40 minutes. May coverage layer with aluminium foil to prevent crust. 
• Rub hot bread with water and wrap with tea towel to ‘sweat’ to soften the crust. 
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