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Easy Homemade Breads

Perhaps you started out baking bread in your childhood. Or, maybe you've always thought making bread would be fun and rewarding, and now you've decided to try it. In either case, Hodgson Mill is here to support you, and is proud of our long history of helping home bakers to make delicious breads and other baked goods. With a full line of bread mixes, flours, and baking ingredients, Hodgson Mill has everything you need to enjoy making bread at home.

Bread making is fun, it's certainly rewarding, and if you haven't tried it, it's a lot easier than you might think...Explore our helpful tips sections below to find out more.

• Trying to figure out why your bread didn’t turn out as well as you’d hoped? With a little help from some professional bakers, Hodgson Mill has collected the following list as a quick-reference guide for the home bread baker. What happened to my bread?
• Are you tired of buying loaves of bread from the grocery store? Would you like to make your own bread at home and know exactly what ingredients are in it? Follow our step by step guide for Baking Bread From Scratch. From proofing the yeast to kneading the dough each step is just as important as the next. For great old-fashioned bread recipes be sure to visit our Recipe Collection.
• A great way to make bread, especially for beginners, is to use a bread machine. Bread machines follow the same process as making bread by hand. The only difference is that the mixing, rising and baking all take place within the machine. But just because your machine has a lid doesn't mean that you shouldn't observe what's going on inside from time to time. After all, that's what the little window on the top is for! To get the best results from your bread machine, check out these Bread Machine Basics.
• Yeast is a living organism and must have warmth to grow. You can encourage the yeast to work by making sure that everything it touches - the bowl, the water you dissolve it in, your utensils, and the other ingredients - is warm. Use these tips on Temperature Control when baking with yeast.

Hodgson Mill is a proud member of the Home Baking Association.  Find educational materials, recipes, and videos great for hands on projects in the classroom or home.  Check out their website www.homebaking.org