Easy White Bread
Easy White Bread is a fantastic home-baked bread recipe. This very tasty basic white bread recipe is made in the breadmaker. It's the perfect accompaniment for soups, pasta, grilled meats and even for breakfast! If you enjoy homemade bread with your meals, this one is delightful. Makes a 2-lb. loaf.
Equipment
- 1 breadmaker for a 2-pound loaf
- measuring cups
- measuring spoons
- 1 pastry brush to brush the bread with melted butter after baking
- 1 electric knife preferred, or sharp bread knife to cut bread into slices
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cups water
- 4 1/4 cups bread flour NOT all-purpose flour
- 4 tbsp. granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp. dry milk powder
- 2 tsp. Kosher salt or sea salt
- 2 1/2 tbsp. butter or avocado oil
- 2 1/2 tsp. Fleischmann’s active dry yeast
Instructions
- Layer ingredients in bread canister in order listed.
- Set timer for basic bread cycle.
- Mine takes approximately 4 hours.
- Allow bread to cool about 15 minutes before removing from bread machine oven.
- Butter top and sides to prevent crust from hardening.
- Cool 15 more minutes before slicing bread down with a bread knife.
- Approximately 15 slices.
Notes
NOTE: Do not use all-purpose flour for this recipe. You will need to use bread flour so the flour has enough glutens to enable to the bread to raise properly and not be dried out and crumbly afterwards which will happen with regular flour.
NOTE: Homemade bread has no preservatives so it needs to be refrigerated after 2 days.
NOTE: I recommend using Fleischmann's yeast or bread machine yeast in any yeast bread recipe. Red Star yeast just doesn't work as well.
Recipe adapted from Zojirushi.
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Nutrition
Calories: 170kcalCarbohydrates: 31gProtein: 5gFat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 6mgSodium: 283mgPotassium: 79mgFiber: 1gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 105IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 32mgIron: 0.3mg
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