Cooking & Baking

I use Kroger all purpose unbleached white flour, and it does fine. I make a loaf of bread about every 10 days to 2 weeks:

Sponge:
1 1/2 cups warm water
1 cup of white flour
1/2 tsp salt
1-2 Tbs olive oil
1-2 tsp yeast

Dough:
2-3 cup of flour
1 egg or 1/4 cup mayo

I mix this together and let it work for an hour. Then I add an egg (lately 1/4 cup mayo) and another 1-2 cups of flour. I mix till I get a soft dough. I don't really measure the ingredients, but this is close. I put wax paper on the counter, and put a cup more or less of white flour on the wax paper. I knead the dough until it is not sticky and won't take any more flour. I put it in a greased 2 lb load pan, cover it and let it rise in the oven with the light on. I let it raise an hour, then remove from the oven, preheat the oven to 350 and bake the loaf for 48 minutes.

I've been using mayo since the price of eggs went up and I had an open jar I didn't want to waste. I started putting an egg in a year or so ago and liked the result. Since I'm using mayo, I reduced the amount of olive oil from maybe 2 Tbs to 1 Tbs. I use the bread to make toast, really good for that.

I'll save the organic flour for some other recipes.