Recipe: White Bread in bread machine

During the Preparedness challenge, we ran out of store bought white bread. While I love my wheat bread recipe, sometimes it's just nice to have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread. I wanted to try some hints I've read about and tried to make some white bread that resembled store bought bread. This is what I came up with. It's yummy and the texture is great. I think it is FINE to have white bread in the house along with wheat bread. Just because it is sooooo yummy!

 I also divide the bread into 4 sections and put them in a custard dish for bread bowls for soup.

Of course I use my bread machine to mix the dough on the "DOUGH" setting. It makes life much easier. I love my bread machine

Recipe:

1 and 1/3 cup warm water (from faucet hot to touch) 

4 tsp butter

2 TBSP Sugar

4 tsp Dry Milk Powder (6 tsp instant powdered milk)

2 tsp Salt

3 TBSP Gluten

1/2 cup Potato Flakes

3 cups All Purpose Flour

1 yeast cake or 2 and 1/4 tsp from a jar (equals 1 yeast cake on my jar)

  (I always fill my bread making pan with warm water first to warm up the pan - then dump it out to warm up the pan).

Add a little less then 1 and 2/3 cup warm water to the warm pan.

Add the 4 TBSP of butter - which is 1/2 of a cube of butter (I set out 1/2 of a cube and let it soften then cut into 4 pats of butter and add). Since the butter is soft it starts to melt in the water.

Add 2 TBSP of sugar.

Add 2 tsp of salt.

Don't stir. Then add the dry ingredients in the pan - in the order listed below.

Add 2 cups flour to pan.

Add 4 tsp of powdered milk.

  Add 1/2 cup potato flakes

Add 3 Tablespoons to 1/2 cup - then add enough flour to the 1/2 cup enough to completely fill the cup.

Add to pan

Add additional 1/2 cup of flour (for a total of 3 cups of flour). 

Make a dent in the center of the flour and add the yeast.

Add yeast to the dent in the flour.

That is it.

Turn the bread dough settings to dough and START.

(If you want to bake it in your bread machine you can push the correct setting to bake it and press start)

On the "dough setting" - when the machine beeps and you pull it out - oh yum - it looks marvelous.

I knead it a few times.

Place dough upside down in a shortening greased bread pan to get grease on the top of the loaf and set the greased side up.

Then I let it rise a until its just over the pan (as shown above).

Then place it in a 350 degree oven for 30 - 35 minutes. (Mine is about 28 minutes). When you take the bread out of the pan and tap the bottom of the bread it should sound hollow. That is how you know it is done.

I butter the top of the bread and take it out of the pan to cool on a towel. Oh yummy! We love this recipe.