Name: Bakehouse White Bread
Yield: Makes 1 loaf
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2½ cups [350 g] all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting; 1½ tsp fine sea salt; ¼ cup plus 1 Tbsp [70 g] unsalted butter, room temperature; 1 Tbsp plus ½ tsp instant yeast; 2 Tbsp granulated sugar; ¾ cup [170 g] whole milk, room temperature; 1 large egg, room temperature

This is our version of the classic French pain de mie. It’s an excellent, all-around sandwich bread, rich and flavorful from the inclusion of egg, milk, and butter. It’s what grocery store soft bread was based on but is so much better tasting and so much better for us. It has only seven ingredients, all readily recognizable, versus store bread with as many as twenty ingredients, many of which we don’t even know how to pronounce.

Our Bakehouse White is a relatively straightforward ye