Hi , I'm Rebecca brand and I'm making a very special recipe .
One of my favorites for the Corona virus in case you want to stay in your house more .
You don't want to go shopping but you want fresh bread .
This is a 40 cents a loaf , fresh loaf of bread .
I've done the math and I'll explain it to you .
But let's get to the recipe .
The ingredients for this dish are water , olive oil yeast and I'm using active dry yeast , salt , sugar flour and you need a bread maker .
I get mine at the thrift shops and I buy them for 5 to $15 each and I keep them around because with the amount of bread I make at home , I go through them about once a year .
I think this one was 15 , 99 .
You can also get them on Amazon .
I'll put the link to what I suggest underneath this video in case you want that one .
Let me explain the mechanics .
Open it up and you've got a twist out to get the pot and this is what we're gonna fill with our ingredients .
Apparently , I didn't get it all out last time I did this recipe a little rinse good enough for government work .
So add one cup of water , plus one quarter cup of water and one tablespoon full of olive oil and you want to make sure it's up to the top .
Here it goes next .
You want to add one teaspoon of salt .
This is kosher salt .
Any salt will do because salt is just salt and you need sugar , sugar , one tablespoon because besides what you're gonna eat , the yeast is gonna eat .
So the R is rising and grows big .
I can make this recipe in 30 seconds .
You don't even have to stir it up .
It's gonna do it itself .
Notice I haven't touched the yeast that comes last .
It's time for the flour .
Now , this is where all the spill comes in .
You want three cups of flour and I'm gonna make it flat on top .
Cup , one flat top in cup , two aim shoot fire cup three last one .
It is not a rotten egg .
Oh , but I failed to mention but you also need to add one third of a cup .
Now , don't get it too much because if you do one half a cup , it's gonna be too dry .
So I think I'm eyeballing it .
That looks like a third of a cup to me and that's going in right now .
I was wrong .
That is not a third of cup upon closer inspection .
That's more like a half a cup .
Because this is important .
If you have a dry loaf , it just doesn't rise as well .
But if you have a wet loaf and too much oil , it's gonna have a dent in the top .
I'm aiming for perfection because this is my youtube channel .
I think that's going to be ok .
So in it goes now it's time to add the yeast .
But I want a little well .
And so I use two little fingers how to make a little well .
And I add three level teaspoons of yeast .
One , 23 , because you've put salt in there and when it mixes all around the salt could kill the yeast .
And you don't want that if you have a little well and the flour comes over it , it makes it .
So the yeast doesn't die .
It looks , it's a hot day .
You don't want any wrong temperatures hitting your yeast .
This recipe you can also make the night before .
So you wake up to fresh bread in the morning , like to make your kids sandwiches for lunch or toast and jelly .
Just think of all the things .
I buy my yeast in these big blocks for 4 to $5 each at a smart and final a Costco any of those big stores that have baking supplies .
The yeast is super expensive .
If you buy it by the packages , it's almost a dollar a packet or more .
Not happy with that .
The economics of this bread recipe , which is my recipe and I call it French Countryside bread because that's what it tastes like .
I buy flowers £25 .
That's about 7 to $10 for £25 of flour .
And for the Coronavirus , you're gonna want to have something like that around .
You just never know .
And the sugar for £10 is about 4 to $5 too .
And olive oil , I buy it in the largest contain and that's like $20 and you'll need a tablespoon of that .
And salt enough said so by buying a large quantity of y this could be what makes homemade bread more expensive .
I have calculated all these costs out .
It's less than 40 cents a loaf .
I think it's more like 25 cents a loaf .
And that probably includes electricity too .
The deal about making homemade bread is if you don't have your stuff laid out next to your bread maker on your counter , you're probably never going to do it because this thing weighs a ton .
So I keep the breadmaker out on my counter next to the flour and the sugar .
I have my yeast in my top shelf in my refrigerator .
That's easy .
And I have salt and the olive oil handy .
If you do any habit for three weeks , it comes to you naturally .
Well , whatever , this is really easy .
I suggest putting a post it on your bread machine .
With this recipe .
I tried many different recipes .
I've made thousands of loaves of bread .
This is the one I've made .
I don't know , 980 at least loaves as my kids are growing up every day , we'd have fresh bread .
And in Coronavirus , it's gonna be tough for you to get to the store and get it fresh .
So I hope this helps you comment and let me know what kind of recipes you want .
Especially for the Coronavirus .
I have a whole whole playlist on everything I'm doing just in case I want to hunker down and not leave the house .
And I also have a really great bone broth recipe and that's on the stove now .
So check me out .
I'm Rebecca brand recipes .
I'm so happy you found me here .
I hope you and your family do great during the Coronavirus .
You know , we do need to be careful .
So I want to talk to you about that .
So please write down what you think , any of your thoughts and let's have a conversation about it .
Oh , back to the recipe .
I can't believe I forgot .
Underneath , here is a little thing that's gonna spin .
So that's got to go into the machine fits into this gizmo in the bottom of the machine because that's gonna spin around and make the paddle spin through your bread .
This is a heating coil and a bread maker is terrific because it makes the perfect for the rice state , which is about an hour and then it gets it hot to bake your bread , put in the baking pan straight down on a slant and lock it in .
See , that's stuck in there , close her up , plug her in .
And all bread makers are great because they have all these little things they can do .
But to keep it simple , I usually use number one , which is basic .
It's already set to press .
Number one .
Isn't that nice ?
Now , if I wanted to do a one hour loaf , which I often do .
I use two tablespoons of yeast .
I extra the yeast because the one hour cycle can be quite dense .
I want it to rise a little faster .
My recipe is different than most because I've done this so many times .
Ok .
Anyways back to the basic three hour loaf press start and in three hours this is going to be done .
But this is what I suggest .
I've had my foils making homemade bread and my bread maker that I do all the time .
These are the mistakes I make most often , which is really freaky .
I've forgotten to add the water .
Like really I have or there's too much oil or there's too much flour .
I don't know how this happens to me , but it does , especially when you know the ingredients in your head .
It's like , oh yeah , it just becomes an automatic routine that I have at any time .
So a tip is in about 10 minutes when it gets to the fast spin cycle .
I just take a little look .
See .
And if that ball looks hard and dry , I will add maybe a quarter cup of water to it .
But that's really the only modification you can make .
So if you mess up on the oil , whatever you'll learn for next time , we're gonna let our handy dandy bread maker do its thing and we'll come back .
This is a batch of exactly the recipe I'm putting in the back of this video .
It seemed to be the ultimate recipe for bread maker .
Bread .
I don't want to leave you a stray .
So I modified it from what I said on camera .
Look at how great that little dough ball looks so soft and elastic just the way I want it and it's starting to rise .
Oh It feels so good .
Yum .
I poke it .
Look at that .
It's got some sponginess to , it looks great and it's been rising about a half an hour soon .
It'll go all the way to the top of here and only eight minutes to go .
Let's check it .
Oh , yeah .
Looking good .
Who I'm gonna let it finish up ?
It's been three hours .
It's ready .
You gotta take it out which is bring in the handle .
Give it a twist and out .
It goes and you gotta shake , shake , shake , shake it out .
And this is what our loaf of bread and our bread maker looks like .
Doesn't that look great ?
Now , if I'm not ready for dinner yet .
And this came out , let's say three o'clock in the afternoon and I want it for dinner .
I will stick it in the oven at 200 degrees for the last , maybe , I don't know , 15 , 20 minutes a holding tip .
And what happens is the exterior of this crust will get super crunchy and delicious .
Let's cut it .
Oh , that sounds crusty and good .
Wow .
That looks great .
I'm gonna thinner slice to put lots of butter on it when they serve it to my family .
I cut it in four pieces because that's a lot to manage for video purposes .
I'm spreading butter on this piece .
Oh , yeah .
That's warm inside .
Yum .
Time for the bite .
I'm just gonna pull it apart .
Mm .
That's awesome .
It's my very favorite recipe .
French Countryside bread .
Mm .
I'm Rebecca Bram .
Subscribe to my channel and I hope you watch my whole series on hunkering Down for the Coronavirus .
And isn't that amazing ?
Less than 40 cents for this loaf of bread ?
And you can make it every single day with 30 seconds prep time .
I promise .
After a few practices once you get in the habit , this is a wonderful thing to have any time , every day , no matter what's going on in life .
Fresh .
See you next time .
Wow .
Oh Red brick .
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