Butter Bread

This egg bread is shaped into les gemeaux, or “the twins,” a pair of loaves baked in the same pan. You can bake this specially shaped twin-humped loaf in your bread machine on the Basic or Variety cycles as described below. Or you can remove the dough, shape it into the twin loaf (with the seam in the middle), place it in a loaf pan (8-by-4-inch for 1½ pounds dough; 9-by-5-inch for 2 pounds), cover it with plastic wrap to rise for 45 minutes, and bake it off in your oven for 40 minut