Things You'll Need:
- A favorite bread recipe & ingredients
- A shelf cleared in your freezer
- Foil or plastic wrap
- A cookie sheet or bread pan
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Step 1
First, follow a recipe for your favorite yeast bread dough. Make sure your yeast is active when using your recipe or this will not work. For this reason, it's suggested that you start the yeast by adding to the warm water in the recipe as opposed to adding it to the dry ingredients, though you can do it either way. Allow it to rise ONLY ONCE! Then continue as follows:
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Step 2
Once the first rise has taken place, punch down, roll out and shape. You can shape it into loaves or shape into small rolls, whatever is what your family normally eats.
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Step 3
Once you've rolled out your dough into the shape you want, IMMEDIATELY put it in the freezer. If you are freezing loaves, you may want to spray some non stick spray in a bread pan and freeze the dough in that because some rising WILL take place in the freezer, and this way you ensure the dough will fit into the pan when you are ready to bake. You can also freeze the loaf dough directly onto a cookie sheet.
If you are freezing dough rolls, lay them on your cookie sheet IN the freezer, at least 2" apart. -
Step 4
Once your dough is completely frozen, wrap in plastic wrap or foil, place in a plastic freezer bag and label!
When you are ready to make your bread, take it out of the freezer, place the rolls on a cookie sheet or the dough in a bread pan in a warm, draft free place and allow it to thaw COMPLETELY & rise, then bake according to the recipe. DO NOT PUNCH DOWN ONCE THE BREAD HAS BEEN FROZEN! Once it's been frozen, it only needs to rise once since it went through the 1st rising before it froze.
Now you have home made bread any time you want!
