Pour water into a large bowl (or bowl of Kitchenaid Stand Mixer)

Add yeast

Add honey

Mix yeast and honey gently with water

Let yeast-honey-water mixture sit for 10 minutes

Add butter

Add 2 cups of white flour

Add salt

Use a large wooden spoon OR set mixer on low and gradually mix in flour

Gradually add one to two cups of flour until the dough is too hard to mix with the spoon OR starts forming a ball in the bowl of your stand mixer

Turn dough out onto a floured surface

Using your hands, gradually work in additional flour until the dough isn't sticky

Knead the dough by hand until smooth - approximately four to five minutes

Form into one large dough ball

Place the large dough ball into a large, greased bowl (I use butter to grease it) and turn the ball so it's coated on all sides

Cover bowl with a clean tea towel and set in a cold oven to rise for one hour or until the dough has almost doubled in size

Turn dough out onto a floured surface and punch down gently to remove all the air. Shape the dough into two loaves and place into two greased loaf pans

Cover loaf pans with a tea towel and return to cold oven to rise for about 40 minutes

Remove the loaf pans to counter

Heat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit, then place loaf pans in the oven

Immediately increase heat to 425 degrees Fahrenheit

Bake for 23 minutes or until loaves sound hollow when you tap them

Cool in loaf pans on rack for 5 minutes

Remove from loaf pans and cool on wire rack