How To Freeze Bread Dough

You love homemade bread but you don’t have the amount of time it takes to make. You can buy a bread maker, but if you prefer baking bread in an oven, here’s a way you can enjoy freshly baked homemade bread each and every day.

It’s cheap to do and much healthier since your family isn’t consuming all those preservatives found in many commercial breads.

Tip:

• Make batches of bread one day a month and freeze the dough to take out as you need.

Here’s what you do…

How To Freeze Ahead Bread Dough

• Use your favorite bread recipe, but double the amount of yeast required.
• Follow recipe directions for mixing and kneading, allow the dough to rise once (double in size).
• Punch down the dough.
• Shape loaves so they are no more than 2 inches deep (they need to thaw quickly once out of the freezer).
• Place shaped loaves in a ziploc freezer bag (remove the air) and freeze.

Unbaked bread dough can be frozen up to four weeks.

How To Thaw & Prepare Frozen Dough

• Remove dough loaf from freezer bag and place in a greased loaf pan. Cover with greased plastic wrap. It will rise while it thaws.
• When the dough has fully thawed, bake it as the recipe dictates.
• The dough likely will not rise until it’s double in bulk, but it will continue rising when you bake it.
• Some doughs perform best with an additional rise and punch down before baking, test to see which gives you best results.

Also see How To Make Bread, White Bread Recipe and Tips on Baking Breads.

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