Thursday, January 17, 2008

From Hillbilly house wife site

Reader Questions
“Can I freeze the overnight bread to bake later. When in the recipe would it be best to freeze.” - Anonymous
Great question. If you’ve been making the family bread which results in 4 loafs of bread, and like me you don’t have a particularly large family, you don’t really need that much bread all at once.
Here’s what I do and it works with just about any yeast dough bread recipe…
I prepare the recipe per direction up to the point where you shape the dough into the final shape (i.e. loaf, rolls etc.). I don’t let it rise, instead I stick it in the freezer. If I’m baking bread, I put it in the baking pan to shape, then stick everything (pan and dough) into a large freezer bag and stick it in the freezer overnight.
I take it out of the bread pan the next morning and store it in a freezer bag. The dough will rise nicely as it thaws, then bake as usual.