Hoagie Bread

(from anacaeca’s recipe box)

These loaves are awesome. The outside is lightly crusty, the inside is light and chewy and fluffy. They are delicious warm with some butter, but even better? Make a nice sub/hoagie/grinder/whatever-you-call it.

Source: Super Suppers

Categories: Bread, untested

Ingredients

  • 1 cup water
  • 2 1/2 cups bread flour
  • 1 tablespoon white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons bread machine yeast
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 tablespoon water

Directions

  1. Combine the water, sugar, salt, and yeast (you can use rapid rise or whatever) into a small bowl to activate the yeast. After about 5-10 minutes, it should look foamy.

  2. Add the yeast/water/etc. mixture to the bread flour. From there, I get down and dirty and use my (clean) hands to combine it.

  3. Because I am too lazy to get ANOTHER bowl dirty, I just pick up the ball of dough, spray the bowl it was just in with butter-flavored cooking spray, and splat it right back in, and roll it around in the spray a bit.

  4. Grab a clean dishtowel and get it wet with warm water. Not sopping, but beyond damp. You want to be able to wring a bit out still, but not have it drippy. Cover your bowl o’dough with the damp cloth.

  5. Stick it in the microwave for 30 seconds. At the end of those 30 seconds, let it sit in the microwave for 5 minutes. Then microwave again for 30 seconds. Let it sit in the microwave for 15 minutes. Microwave it for 30 seconds. Let it sit for 15 minutes. By the end of this fun part, it should look nice and poofy.

  6. Turn your oven on to the lowest it can go (mine was 170 degrees F).

  7. Turn it out onto a clean floured surface and roll out with a floured rolling pin until it is a 12 × 16 rectangle. Cut it in half (I use a pizza cutter).

  8. Roll ’em up. Using your handy dandy kitchen scissors, make cuts in the top of the loaves.

  9. Place the loaves on a greased cookie sheet, and cover with the damp towel that you used earlier. Stick it in your oven (oh my!), but leave the door partially open just so you don’t set the place on fire. Or just put the loaves in a warm place, but hey, I’m impatient. Mine stayed in the warm oven for 20 minutes.

  10. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.

  11. Separate one egg. Throw out the egg white. Combine the yolk with a tablespoon of water and brush over the loaves. Bake at 375 F for 20 minutes

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