Chef's Easy White Bread

1 1/4(315 ml) cups warm water (100º - 110ºF 45ºC)
3 tablespoons powdered milk
1 teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons sugar or hunny(sugar is best)
2 tablespoons canola oil or butter or margarine
3 1/4(810 ml) cups bread flour
1 heaping teaspoon Fleischmann's® Bread Machine Yeast

Yield: 1 Loaf

1. Measure all ingredients into bread machine pan in the order listed.

2. Process in basic/white bread cycle; light crust color setting. Remove baked bread from pan; cool on wire rack.

instructions is a little too simple..

This is for bread machines so it is designed to be simple. You just put the ingredients in the beard machine and press start, as appose to the beard that you place in an oven which is more complex, and requires kneading by you not the machine.

Here are some alternatives to this that work well:

1 1/4(315 ml) cups warm water (100º - 110ºF 45ºC)
1 teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons canola oil or butter or margarine
3 1/4(810 ml) cups bread flour
1 heaping teaspoon Fleischmann's® Bread Machine Yeast

or

1 1/4(315 ml)( cups warm milk (100º - 110ºF 45ºC)
1 teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons canola oil or butter or margarine
3 1/4(810 ml) cups bread flour
1 heaping teaspoon Fleischmann's® Bread Machine Yeast

or for a smaller more fluffy loaf:

2/3(160 ml) cup warm water (100º - 110ºF 45ºC)
1/2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon canola oil or butter or margarine
1 2/3(405 ml) cup bread flour
1/2 a heaping teaspoon Fleischmann's® Bread Machine Yeast

I have a 1.5 - 2 lb breadmaker and I tried this recipe a couple of times, but I made a few adjustments because my bread was either rock solid (the milk version) or overflowing (the water version).

Here's what I did, and it gets a perfect (for me anyway) loaf every time.

For the water, I fill my 1 cup measuring cup (anchor brand) to the top just enough to handle it without spilling it, and heat it for 1 minute in the microwave before pouring into the pan. Then I take some coarse kosher salt and pour what looks like 1 teaspoon worth into the cup of my hand and pour that into the pan. 3 slightly less than full tablespoons of sugar, and 2 tablespoons of canola oil. I use 3 cups of flour, and instead of using 1 heaping teaspoon of yeast, I found it to work better for me to use 2 half-teaspoons heaping of the breadmachine yeast.

This works absolutely perfect for me every time.

I forgot to mention, I set the breadmachine for 1.5lb loaf on light crust. And I was wrong, it's not anchor brand measuring cup, it's Fire King. I wanted to make sure I made the correction, because I know that a lot of measuring cups have slightly different measures even though they are supposed to be the same.