Basic Square Bread Loaf

Name: Basic Square Bread Loaf
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 250 grams Bread (strong) flour; 20 grams Unsalted butter; 20 grams Sugar; 10 grams Skim milk powder; 5 grams Salt; 180 ml Water; 3 grams Dry yeast

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This is a delicious plain bread for sandwiches or morning toast that uses basic ingredients. It practically goes with anything!

I used a blend of 2 types of bread flour - 150 g of "Golden Yacht" and 100 g of "Haruyutaka".
With this recipe as a base, you can vary things by using milk or milk + egg instead of the water, and so on. For 1 loaf's worth. Recipe by Natsumi

This is a delicious plain bread for sandwiches or morning toast that uses basic ingredients. It practically goes with anything!

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

This is a delicious plain bread for sandwiches or morning toast that uses basic ingredients. It practically goes with anything!

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Ingredients

250 gramsBread (strong) flour
20 gramsUnsalted butter
20 gramsSugar
10 gramsSkim milk powder
5 gramsSalt
180 mlWater
3 gramsDry yeast

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Steps

1

Put all the ingredients in a bread machine, and select the "dough only" program. (Or you can just bake it in the bread machine instead of in a square bread pan.)
2

When the dough-kneading program is over, take the dough out and round it off so that the surface is smooth and taut. Cover with a tightly wrung out wet kitchen towel, and leave to rest for 15 minutes.
3

Punch the dough down to deflate it and round it off again. Put the dough into an oiled or greased bread pan. (*See Step 8)
4

Cover with the lid, and leave in a warm place or use your oven's bread-rising setting to let it rise (2nd rising).
5

When the dough has risen to fill the pan about 80% of the way, bake in a pre-heated 190°C oven for 30 minutes.
6

When it's done, take the lid off and drop the pan from about a 10-20 cm height a few times to 'shock' it.
7

Take the bread out of the pan, and it's done. If you leave it to cool on a rack loosely covered with plastic, the bread will become moist and easy to slice.
8

When oiling or buttering the pan during Step 3, a spray type oil like this is convenient to use.