Grandma's Basic Bread

A classic, homemade, made-by-hand recipe.


5 1/2 cups water
1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp salt
6-7 tbsp. oil
2 tbsp yeast

Mix all these ingredients together and beat with a whisk 100 times until smooth.

No actual measurement for flour, just add 1/2 at a time until you feel the consistency is right. Knead 100-200 times.

Cover and let rise until double in size. (Put your bowl in a sunbeam by a window or somewhere warm. I usually boil a kettle full of water, but a bowl on the bottom rack of my oven and pour the boiling water in that bowl. Then I put my covered bread dough bowl on the upper rack of the oven.)

Knead again.

Cut into 5 equal pieces. Place in well greased loaf pans. Let rise again until double in size.Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.