After all of the heavy eating during the holidays, I was craving a light soup and salad dinner. My daughter is always asking for Tomato Soup, so I made this bread to serve with it so that it would be a substantial enough meal for my husband. It was a bribe of sorts, as I usually do not support the consumption of white bread. 😉
This wonderful bread recipe was adapted from a favorite book, Kathleen’s Bake Shop Cookbook: The Best Recipes from Southampton’s Favorite Bakery for Homestyle Cookies, Cakes, Pies, Muffins, and Breads by Kathleen King. I halved the recipe and adapted the recipe to use a bread machine. My family loved it!
Yield: one standard loaf
- 2 1/2 T warm water
- 1 cup warm milk (I used 1 percent)
- 1 1/2 T unsalted butter, cubed
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 T granulated sugar
- 1 tsp coarse salt
- 2 1/2 tsp bread machine (dry) yeast
- Combine warm water, warm milk, and butter in the bread machine loaf pan.
- Place flour over the top, using a knife to spread it evenly into the corners of the pan.
- Sprinkle the sugar and salt over the top of the flour.
- Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the yeast.
- Set the bread machine to 1 1/2 pound standard loaf and start.
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Love the texture of the bread Josette!
It was really soft & fluffy. Thanks, Sonal. 🙂
Josette, The bread looks perfect! Nothing like home made bread, right?
I occasionally give into making the white bread too. 🙂
I have a few questions, by warm in this recipe do you mean 70-80 degrees like with the bread machine brioche recipe? also I just tried this recipe and I misread the yeast as 2.5 tablespoons instead of teaspoons ( I am cook by nature not a baker, so I do not usually have to measure much) so I will be trying the recipe as written again probably tomorrow, I am also wondering why you used all purpose flour for this one and bread flour for the brioche and I am wishing that we didn’t have to deal with all this teaspoon and tablespoon non sense 🙂 Your Brioche recipe was wonderful and I actually seemed easier to me than the one for white bread !!
Yes- the lukewarm water is between 80 and 100 degrees. I believe all-purpose flour is used because the resulting bread is a little bit lighter, but it may be just because it’s a more common flour to have on hand. I’m sure bread flour would work well too. Happy you’re making these great bread machine breads! 🙂
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