When it's warm out of the oven and melts your butter, with that soft fluffy inside and a crispy crust. Sooo good.
Unfortunately, the day after, it's not really the best sandwich bread. It's very crumbly and it only lasts about a day or two before it starts to get stale.
I love to make home made bread to go with a meal warm, but when I decided to make all my own bread, I decided that my recipe wasn't good enough to make all of our sandwiches with. I actually wanted it to be more like store bread.
I've been searching for a while for the perfect sandwich bread recipe and I've actually found that they are pretty equal in their being delicious when fresh, but also in not lasting for days to make sandwiches.
This is actually not a recipe post.
I went back to my original recipe, a bit discouraged about making all our bread. In fact, I was about to start buying bread again when my awesome sister in law gave me a slice of her bread to try.
It was perfect.
I excitedly asked her what she did to it and she told me about this article she found:
Homemade Dough Enhancers, General Info
It gives a list of things that make up a great dough enhancer and it also explains why each of them works. I've yet to add everything on the list (just because I don't always have everything) but I can tell you that just adding a few (especially the first three) makes a world of difference!
So try it out, add some or all of these things to your favorite recipe, and I promise, it will last longer, and it will have a perfect consistency to be sandwiches without making them crumby. You won't be able to stop making it! (Especially if you have a stand mixer)
Now if I can just get better at cutting even slices....
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