Fresh Yeast Bread

Name: Fresh Yeast Bread
Yield: Makes 1 Loaf
Ingredients: 30 ml/2 tbsp sunflower oil; 30 ml/2 tbsp skimmed milk powder (non fat dry milk); 450 g/1 lb/4 cups unbleached white bread flour; 75 ml/5 tbsp sunflower seeds, for coating; 10 ml/2 tsp salt; 5 ml/1 tsp granulated sugar; 260 ml/9 fl oz/1⅛ cups water; 15 g/½ oz fresh yeast

Preparation info

Makes
1
Loaf

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook

By Jennie Shapter

Published 2010

About

Bread machine manufacturers do not recommend using fresh yeast for bread baked in their appliances, but if the bread is to be baked in the oven, the machine can be used to prepare the dough.

Ingredients

15 g/½ oz fresh yeast
5 ml/1

Bread
Vegetarian

Method

In a small bowl, cream the fresh yeast with the sugar and 30ml/2 tbsp of the water. Leave to stand for 5 minutes then scrape the mixture into the bread machine pan. Add the remaining water and the sunflower oil. However, if the instructions for your bread machine specify that the yeast is to be placed in the pan first, simply reverse the order in which you add the liq