Homemade bread is one of my favorite things in the whole world.  However, I’ve never quite had the touch, so I rely on my bread maker.  You might think bread from a machine would be just like that stuff you buy in store, but it’s as delicious, wholesome, and nostalgic, as anything your grandma could have made.  It just has the notorious bread maker shape, and the unavoidable hole in the bottom from the mixing apparatus.  In my kitchen it always has the distinct sunken shape as well, and I’m not sure why that is.  My mother’s never turns out that way, but mine sure does.  It might just be the bread spirits saying “go ahead make some tasty bread, but don’t get too uppity about it.”

 

Here is my latest bread making experience.  Each bread maker is different so you may have to change some settings to fit your machine.

Country White

Ingredients:

8-10 oz milk (lukewarm)

1 ½ tsp salt

1 large egg

1 ½ tbls butter or margarine, softened

4 cups bread flour

3 tbls sugar

2 tsp active dry yeast

Measure all ingredients into bread pan in order they appear.  Select desired setting (Basic or Sweet).  Select crust setting.  Start your machine!