I made a delicious loaf of Italian bread the other night to go with supper. Italian bread is different from French bread in that traditional French bread (baguette) is made from only flour, water, yeast, and salt. Italian bread adds a little milk, sugar, or fat to soften up the loaf. Sometimes we buy those $1 loaves of "french" bread at Walmart and either make sandwiches with the bread or make garlic bread with it. They're pretty good stuff if you don't have time to make homemade. They have few preservatives and are much cheaper than buying sliced white bread for sandwiches. A few cuts with my electric knife and I have some great sandwich bread with a little more stretch to my dollar. But I wanted a recipe so that I could make those at home. I've been trying french bread recipes and they're good, but not the texture that my husband prefers when we make garlic bread at home (because he's prefers store bought - ugh!). I knew the loaves I ...
This is how I do it AT HOME MY WAY!