Bread Machine White Bread

Equipment

  • bread machine
  • food scale

Ingredients

The following is for a 2lb loaf. For other sizes, simply adjust the ratio of ingredients up or down.

  • 320g (1¼ cups) water
  • 35g (2½ tbsp) unsalted butter, softened or mostly melted
  • 553g (~4¼ cups) bread flour
  • 48g (4 tbsp) sugar
  • 8g (2 tbsp) dry milk
  • 10g (2 tbsp) salt
  • 6g (2 tbsp) rapid rise yeast / bread machine yeast

Steps

  1. Add all ingredients to the bread machine in the order specified
  2. Set the bread machine to the “white” setting and press start

Notes

  • The reason for adding the ingredients in a specific order is because you want wet ingredients to go in first, then flour to create a buffer, then the dry ingredients, finally yeast at the very top. This prevents the yeast from accidentally being killed too early in the process
  • I own this bread machine and this recipe was tested with it. You should be able to make a 2lb loaf with this recipe but you might need to adjust accordingly.