Your First Loaf

Name: Your First Loaf
Ingredients: 2½ teaspoons SAF yeast or 1 tablespoon bread machine yeast; 1 tablespoon honey; 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces; 3 cups bread flour; 2 tablespoons nonfat dry milk; 1⅛ cups water; 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon gluten; 1½ tablespoons sugar; 2½ teaspoons SAF yeast or 1 tablespoon bread machine yeast; 2 teaspoons salt; 4 cups bread flour; 2½ tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces; 2 tablespoons toasted wheat germ, optional; 3 tablespoons nonfat dry milk; 2 teaspoons SAF yeast or 2½ teaspoons bread machine yeast; 2 teaspoons SAF yeast or 2½ teaspoons bread machine yeast; 1½ tablespoons honey; 1½ cups water; 1 tablespoon sugar; 1 tablespoon toasted wheat germ, optional; 1½ teaspoons salt; 1 tablespoon gluten

Homestyle White Bread

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Easy

Appears in

The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook

By Beth Hensperger

Published 2000

About

This style of constructing a dough is known as the plain, direct, or straight dough method. The majority of the loaves in this book are made in this manner. All of the raw ingredients are combined at the same time to make a malleable dough ball. Since bread machine recipes call for a type of yeast that is able to be incorporated into the dry ingredients without being dissolved first in water, it is a variation of the rapid-mix method that became popular with electric mixing. This recipe pro

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