Made a loaf of my favorite white sandwich today. I made it for a long commercial loaf pan. If using a standard size loaf pan, cut the recipe in half, but follow the same directions.
Ingredients - 600g bread flour, 480g warm water, 2 tsp sugar, 2 tsp active
or instant bread yeast, 1/4 cup olive oil, 2 tsp salt.
Put water, sugar, and yeast in bowl of mixer and whisk together. Let sit for 15 minutes.
Whisk salt into flour.
After 15 minutes, water/yeast in mixer bowl should look something like this.
Pour olive oil into mixer bowl.
Using bread hook, turn mixer on low and add flour a little at a time until it is all in the bowl.
When all flour is added, turn mixer to medium, and mix for 5 minutes.
This is a very sticky dough. To work it, the surface, and your hands must be very wet. Keep a bowl of warm water handy to rewet surface and hands if dough starts sticking. Turn dough out onto wet surface and scrape bowl clean.
Now perform a slap and fold on the dough. Essentially, pick the dough up by one side and slap it down on the work surface, then fold it in half. Do this 8 or 10 times. Dough should tighten up, something like this.
Heavily oil a lidded bowl (or use a large bowl and cover with plastic wrap.) Place dough in bowl, cover and set in a warm place for about an hour, or until doubled in size.
After raising, the dough will look something like this.
Turn dough out of bowl, punch down, and roll into a loaf shape. I line my pan with parchment paper. Place loaf in pan, cover with plastic wrap and set aside to raise until loaf reaches top of pan.
While loaf is raising, heat oven to 450 degrees
When bread reaches the top of the pan, and oven is at 450 degrees, place loaf pan in oven
Bake for around 30 minutes or until golden brown. Turn out onto a rack to cool.
