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Homemade white bread

Soft & Fluffy Homemade White Bread (Bread Machine)

Soft, delicious, fluffy white bread that's about 5 minutes of hands-on work. The bread maker does the rest.

Prep about 5 minutesHands-on about 5 minutesCook about 3 hoursTotal 3 hoursServes 1Makes 1 loaf

Ingredients

For the bread

  • 1 cup + 4 tbsp Water
  • 2 tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
  • 3 cups + ⅛ cup Sifted bread flour
  • 1.5 tsp Kosher salt
  • 2 tbsp Turbinado sugar
  • 2.5 tsp Instant dry yeast

Steps

  1. 1Add liquids first - water then olive oilPouring water
  2. 2Next, add the sifted bread flour. In this recipe, it's very important that you sift the flour first before measuring it.Pouring flour
  3. 3Add the salt, sugar and instant dry yeastPouring salt, sugar, yeast
  4. 4Choose the basic white bread setting on your bread maker and start it. You can walk away and forget about it for about 3 hours.
  5. 5Take the loaf out and let it cool for 1-2 hours on a wire rack.
  6. 6Once it's cooled down, slice the whole loaf. Use within three days or flash freeze then place into a freezer safe bag. I prefer freezing unless I plan on eating the bread right away - the bread tastes exactly the same from frozen.

Freezer & Reheat

How to freeze:
Once it cools, slice the whole loaf and freeze half.
Reheat:
A frozen slice reheats in about 6 minutes.