Advantages of making homemade bread are
1. Less expensive 2. Great hobby 3. Nice aroma in the house 4. Makes your spouse fall in love with you again, LOL, 5. Ingredients are easy to buy 6. Less or no preservatives.
7. We can customize our breads too. 8. makes us look like a genius . LOL.
I have been using a Cuisinart brand (vertical model) bread maker machine since 2020.
Always save the instruction booklets and recipe booklets for any appliance you buy. That will help in the long run.
Ingredients:
(Medium loaf 1.5 LB size)
Water - 1 cup + 2 Tbsp
Unsalted Butter - 2 Tbsp +1 Tsp
Sugar - 2 Tsp
Salt - 1 1/4 Tsp
All Purpose Flour - 3 Cups
Non fat dry milk - 1/4 cup
Yeast - 1 Tsp
(Active dry / Instant yeast / bread machine yeast)
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| My handy recipe for White bread |
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| Bread stored in container |
Method:
Warm the water to lukewarm temperature (in cold countries).
Melt the butter.
Add all the items in the order mentioned.
Choose the bread type - here we choose white bread.
Choose the size - for this recipe, we choose 1 1/2 LB
Choose the shade - we are choosing a dark crust.
Press start. We need not do anything from this stage.
It will take 3.5 hrs (almost).
There will be kneading and 3 times of Rising.
In between the machine will ask , if we want to add any ingredients.
If we want we can add any additives like raisin or any other items as per recipe.
After all 3 rises, It will ask us to remove the paddle.
If we are removing the paddle, then take the dough, knead well using hands and shape like bread and place inside the pan. Then press start.
But removing the paddle is OPTIONAL. I won't recommend removing the paddle.
we can remove the paddle after the bread is baked (and cooled).
So I recommend baking uninterrupted.
After the baking is done, remove the bread.
Cool in wire racks and slice.
Store in air tight containers and enjoy with butter or as sandwich.
Servings suggestions:
Makes 1.5 Lb loaf of bread
