Easy Hand Kneaded Bread

Directions

1. 1
   Put the bread flour, dry yeast, sugar, salt and butter in a bowl.
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   Add the warmed milk + water, and mix it in with a spatula until the ingredients (except for the flour) have dissolved.
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   Mix well with the spatula.
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   When the dough comes together, take the spatula out and mix with your hand.
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   Slap down the dough and fold it in half in side the bowl for 5 to 7 minutes.
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   When the dough is sticky and smooth, the kneading is done.
7. 7
   Round the dough off into a smooth ball.
8. 8
   Clean out the bowl, grease it lightly and put in the ball of dough.
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   Cover loosely with plastic wrap, and let it rise in the oven at 40C for 40 minutes.
10. 10
    The dough triples in size!
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    Dip your index finger in some flour and poke a hole in the dough.
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    If the hole remains, it's finished rising.
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    If the hole fills back in, leave the dough to rise for a while longer.
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    Cut the dough up into any size you like and form them into shapes.
15. 15
    I made custard and jam bread this time, so I formed the dough into cup like shapes and topped with custard.
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    These are wiener sausage rolls.
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    Pierce each sausage 3 times with a knife, and wrap a thin long piece of dough around it three times.
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    Tuck the end of the dough under the roll, and place on a kitchen parchment paper lined baking tray.
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    Brush the dough with egg wash and top the sausage rolls with a little ketchup.
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    Preheat the oven to 180C.
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    Put the baking tray with the formed dough on top of the oven.
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    The heat from the oven will help the dough to keep rising.
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    When the oven has heated up, bake for 20 minutes at 180C.
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    Please adjust the baking time depending on your oven.
25. 25
    If making the custard filled rolls described in step 6, let the bread cool down a bit before adding some jam.
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    For the sausage rolls from step 7, sprinkle with a little chopped parsley.
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    In the back of this picture are egg and bacon rolls.
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    In the front are simple pizza.
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    I made the dough this time with soy milk instead of regular milk.
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    Here's an apple and custard bread on the left, and another pizza on the right.
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    The pizza was rolled out to be a little smaller than the baking sheet with a rolling pin before adding the toppings.