Thick, crispy crust and fluffy crumb, just the way I like it. A little bland, though.

It turned out great with the first loaf, but then I made it again, and it flopped. I will have to try it again sometime.

I love this bread! Next time I think I need fresher yeast.

I tried making this bread a few days ago. Except I want to make it again becuase it didn't come out the way i thought it would. It came out hard on the outside, and a little raw in the inside. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I would really like to make it soon again! :D Thank you!

This was easy...basic, just as the title states. Omitted corn meal and put it in loaf pans and used it for lunch bread for the kids, it is definitely better than store-bought. Only used 4 1/2 cups of flour though, and it baked about almost 20 minutes. Thank you for the recipe. :)

This was the first time I ever baked bread and it turned out very well, if I do say so myself. The recipe is vary easy and the final product is delicious.

This is great! I do leave out the salt, but that is just me. the doctors do not want me to have too much salt! The house smells great too!

Very easy, I have never made bread from scratch. Ive done it in a bread machine before and the little bit of extra effort made it well worth it. My family enjoyed this as much as I did. It was enough to eat over two nights. The second night I cut it and made garlic bread to go with pasta.

It is excellent. like when making most bread dont over knead it and it rises high and taste great.

Sorry, this is just too heavy for me. Try my light honey wheat, You'll love it.

This is really bland bread. It might be OK to practice with if you're just learning to bake, but it's never going to taste like good, hand made bread should.

There are a ton of better, even easier recipes to make great bread. Try Mark Bittman's No Knead bread instead.

When I made this I put whole wheat flour into it to have whole wheat bread. I put homemade wild strawberry jam on it also it was super. I believe if this is rolled out and put cinnamon in the middle then rolled it, raise and bake it. It make a great cinnamon bread. Thanks!

We found that there was to much flour, when mixing the the bread there was to much flour for the amount of liquid. However the bread was great and easy to make

Great recipe, tasted really good, easy to prepare.

First time I have tried bread wqith all my new kitchen aids. Went well and liked by all. A good basic bread for everyday use.

I've never made bread before yet this recipe went off without a hitch. It was both wonderfully soft and flavoursome, I added the smallest amount of vanilla for a bit of flavour but I doubt it was necessary.

I forgot to bring bread with me on one of our trips to our cabin in North Ga. I thought to get on BigOven and see if I could find a basic bread recipe. Yours was perfect..Easy to make and very tasty. My husband commented that it would be OK with him if I forgot the bread again in the future, and make more of this.

I thought cornflour was the same as corn starch in the US - a very fine white powder. The cornmeal in this recipe should be ground corn - usually not as fine as flour. It's usually yellow.

Sparky, cornmeal is just cornflour. I had to look it up!

Oops - good catch. I usually put in the salt with the flour. But if you leave it out, the bread will be OK, just less salty - you can just spread it with salted butter.

Good catch - I usually put the salt in with the flour. But it will be OK if you leave it out - the bread would just be less salty and I would spread it with salted butter...

Help!! This recipe calls for salt, but the instructions never mention it! I am making it NOW!! Please help!

This bread was very easy for me to make as I usually fail at making yeast breads. The bread was a little bland so I would like to figure out how to incorporate more flavor to this bread recipe since it seems to work for me.

Thanks for the basic bread recipe. My bread machine is only good for 4 2/3 cups of flour, I guess I have to scale it down a bit, hopefully I could do it right. Since this recipe does not contain butter or shortening can I add in a few tablespoons of cooking oil to have a softer bread.

what,s cornmeal? i,ve never seen it in a uk supermarket

ll try for sure

I was so excited to try this bread. Everything went perfectly according to the recipe, but the taste was a little bland for my liking. We did make garlic bread out of it and that seemed to jazz up the taste.

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This is a very simple, great tasting bread.

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Super

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