This is a delicious bread recipe. This wonderful, aromatic herb Bread is perfect: The flavour, taste, appearance, texture, all are wonderful.
My family loves it and it smells soooo great while baking.
I’ve made a lot of bread recipes and this one has become one of my favourites!
Ingredients
- 1 2/3 cups Water - 80-90°F/26-32°C
- 3 tbsp Butter - softened or margarine
- 4 1/4 cups Bread flour
- 3 tbsp Dry milk powder
- 1 1/2 tsp Basil - dried
- 1 1/2 tsp Marjoram - dried
- 1 tsp Thyme - dried
- 3/4 tsp Salt
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- 4 tsp Instant dry yeast
Instructions
- Attach the kneading blade in the Bread Maker pan.
- Place all ingredients into the bread pan following the recipe order (or following the order and method specified in the manual of your Bread Maker – mine is: FIRST, liquid ingredients; SECOND, dry ingredients; LAST, yeast). Note: With a finger or a knife, make a small indentation in the middle of the flour. Add yeast to indentation, making sure it does not come into contact with the liquid ingredients.
- Carefully insert bread pan into Bread Maker and gently close the lid.
- Plug the power cord into a wall outlet. Select the “Rapid/Quick” (about 1:20-1:45h - This cycle varies from machine to machine bread setting and press the Start button.With the “Quick setting,” “Crust Colour,” and “size” cannot be changed.
- Open the lid and while using Oven Mitt, firmly grasp the bread pan handle and gently pull the pan straight up and out of the machine. CAUTION: The Bread Maker and pan may be very hot! Always handle with care.
- Use non-stick Spatula to gently loosen the sides of the bread from the pan.
- Turn bread pan upside down onto a Wire Cooling Rack or clean cooking surface and gently shake until bread falls out onto rack.
- Cool for about 10-15 minutes before slicing.
- To make perfect slices every time use a Bread Slicer with an electric knife.
Notes
It’s always a good idea to open the bread machine’s lid during the second kneading cycle (after about 10 minutes) and check the consistency of the dough ball. The dough is “just right” when it is a smooth round ball in appearance, soft to the touch, leaves a slight residue on your finger, and the bottom of the bread pan is clean of dough residue.
- If it’s too dry, add lukewarm liquid a teaspoon at a time until it looks right.
- If it looks too wet, add flour a tablespoon at a time until it looks right.
- If there is flour in the sides of the pan, use a Silicone Spatula to wipe the flour from the pan.
Also check:
- Everything You Need to Know to Start Baking Awesome Bread Using a Bread Maker
- Fast2eat Foolproof (Bread maker) Bread Recipes
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Was very excited to make my first bread in my new bread maker. Unfortunately, it did not come with a recipe book so I searched the net and decided to try this easy recipe. I should have know from the start with the four and a half cups of flour that his was going to be a BIG bread. The recipe says to bake on QUICK which does let let you select a loaf size, so I just went with it. Should have listened to my instincts because this bread turned out to be a disaster! It was too big for my 2 lbs bread maker and pushed against the viewing panel. Was raw when I opened it and could not get it out of the machine. The dough was stuck to the panel, my hands deformed the bread trying to get it out. Tried to save it by finishing the cooking in the oven. Was a big expensive too this morning getting the yeast, the bread flour and the powdered milk… All this could have been avoided if the recipe specified that it was for a LARGE bread maker. Other wise, the recipes look good and it’s a great site. I guess I wanted to try to heard for my first bread…