Soft Sandwich Bread Master Recipe

Name: Soft Sandwich Bread Master Recipe
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 3 h 10 min
Yield: Yield: 2 loaves
Ingredients: 85 grams (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened; 15 grams (1 tablespoon) kosher salt; 50 grams (¼ cup) granulated sugar; 780–900 grams (6½–7½ cups) bread flour or unbleached all-purpose flour; 7 grams (2¼ teaspoons, 1 package) active dry or instant yeast; 454 grams (2 cups, 480 milliliters) milk; 114 grams (½ cup, 120 milliliters) water

Preparation info

Yield:
2
loaves

Difficulty
Complex
Ready in
3 hr 30

Appears in

Baker Bettie's Better Baking Book

By Kristin Hoffman

Published 2022

About

This dough makes beautifully fluffy sandwich bread. It is a slightly enriched dough with the inclusion of milk and some butter. But it is still lean enough that the bread has a good balance of chewiness while still being soft. See the flavor variation section to see how this dough can be made into a wheat bread or a seeded loaf.