Amish White Bread … A Delicious and Simple Recipe!

This Amish White Bread recipe is so incredibly yummy and has a hint of sweetness to it! It is definitely NOT your plain white bread. Every week, Corey bakes two loaves of Delicious Amish White Bread – but only when the kids are home from college. Otherwise … we would be in serious trouble! When our kids are home, we use this easy bread recipe for hot ham and cheese sandwiches, breakfast sandwiches, burgers, and sometimes just smothered in homemade honey butter. By now, I think Corey can make this bread in his sleep.

We recently created an amazing pot roast. We took slices of this delicious homemade bread recipe and topped it with juicy roast beef, slow-cooked mashed potatoes, and veggies with homemade gravy (made from the pot roast juices) drizzled over the top! It was incredible and the perfect pairing!

What do you need to make Homemade Bread recipe?

Here are the ingredients you need for this super easy foolproof recipe:

• Warm water, 2 cups warm water
• White sugar, 1 cup sugar
• Active dry yeast, 1 1/2 tablespoon (do not use instant yeast )
• Kosher salt, 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Vegetable oil, 1/4 cup oil
• All purpose flour, 6 cups flour (no need to use bread flour )

What an easy grocery shopping list! You probably have all of this in your pantry right now. A bread machine is NOT required nor needed.

How do you make the most Delicious Amish Bread?

Use a large bowl or the mixing bowl of your stand mixer to dissolve the sugar in warm water, then stir in the yeast. Allow the yeast mixture to proof (rest) until it creates a creamy foam. Stir in the kosher salt and vegetable oil.

Begin to mix in the flour one cup at a time with your dough hook attachment on medium speed. Continue to add your flour and mix until a soft dough ball forms. You may need to use a rubber spatula to scrape down the side of the bowl while mixing in the remaining flour.

Lightly flour a clean surface and knead your dough until smooth. Place your dough in a well-oiled greased bowl. Turn the dough over in the bowl to thoroughly coat with oil. 

Cover the bowl with a damp towel (or plastic wrap), set it in a warm place, and allow it to rise for about an hour until your bread dough has doubled in size.

Remove the ball of dough from the bowl and punch it down. Knead for about 5 minutes on a lightly floured surface. Then divide the dough in half and shape it into loaves.

Heavily coat two 9×5 – inch bread pans with non-stick baking spray and then place each loaf into the pans. Have the bread dough do a second rise in the loaf pans for 30 minutes, or until it has risen 1-inch above your pans.

Bake the yummy sweet dough at 350° degrees F for 30 minutes.

Carefully remove the bread from each loaf pan and allow it to cool and rest on a wire cooling rack at room temperature for about 20 minutes.

You can brush the top of the baked bread with melted butter or make some of our super yummy Cinnamon Honey Butter … the recipe can be found here! We feel pretty confident over here that Amish White Bread is the best of all white bread recipes! Let us know if you agree!

Here are some other delicious homemade breads for you to try:

• Garlic Rosemary Breadsticks
• Rosemary French Bread
• Dinner Rolls with Cinnamon Honey Butter

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Looking for more tasty and easy recipes? Try a few here:

• Italian Chicken and Acorn Squash Couscous
• Chicken & Pork Crostina Pasta
• Creamy Beef and Potatoes
• Wild Rice Chicken Casserole – (Easy Recipe)
• Meat and Potato Timballo Pie

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