This Best Bread Machine Bread Recipe is going to become a family favorite! This soft and easy bread requires no kneading by hand or turning on your oven, winner! With a prep time of 10 minutes, you can be enjoying this homemade bread loaf from the comfort of your home, thanks to the bread machine for all the work it will be doing.
How to make the Best Bread Machine Bread Recipe?
For this recipe, don’t follow the typical instructions for a bread machine maker. Use the steps in this recipe or else your bread will not rise.
Add warm water to the bread pan. Sprinkle yeast over water and sugar over yeast. The sugar helps activate the yeast quicker.
Add the oil and salt to pan. TIP: You can use Olive oil, Canola oil or Vegetable oil in this recipe.
Add siftedflour to pan. TIP: Sifted flour makes a difference. Don’t skip this step.
Place the pan into the bread machine, turn on desired crispiness of crust and let the bread machine to do the rest of the work.
NOTE: Remove bread from pan once baked. If the bread is left in the pan, the sides will not be crispy.
White bread recipe-
I am sure most of you reading this recipe love a good homemade bread recipe. This recipe, with the help of a bread machine,has like a 10-minute prep time. We make this bread more often than any other. It tastes phenomenal.
TIP: Use good quality flour for this recipe. I usually use Canadian flour or Sapphire when baking bread. You can use a combination of bread flour and all-purpose flour as well.
Thanks to my older sis, Olga, for sharing this recipe with me. She is also the genius behind this blueberry no-bake dessert.
Try these other breadrecipes:
Easy Braided White Bread– Simple white bread recipe.
Butter and Herbs Bread Braid– Delicious herb and butter bread.
Mamma’s Homemade Bread– Homemade bread to live by.
Banana Pecan Bread – A simple sweet bread with pecans.
Best Bread Machine Bread Recipe
Author: Valentina
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The Best Bread Machine Bread Recipe. With a 10-minute prep time, you can enjoy fresh bread. No kneading by hand, no stove needed.
My crust turned out really hard set on medium crust. Any idea what I did wrong?
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Valentina’s Corner
Did it soften after it sat a little? Norally it will.
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Leah Henderson
I either mis-measured water or flour. Dough was much too wet. But I threw in 2/3 cup of flour quickly and it came out wonderful! Will Measure more carefully in future
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Valentina’s Corner
Looks like you mis-measured the flour, it should not be too wet.
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Brigitte
Love this recipe! I’ve made this bread four times now and it comes out perfectly every time. I use instant yeast which I had purchased in bulk in 2020 and keep in the freezer. It works just fine, but the texture of my bread looks fluffier than your picture. Other than that, I follow your recipe.
I make several types of no-knead breads, but they all need to be made in the oven. Not practical when it’s 100 degrees outside. I found a great recipe to make rye bread in the bread maker but needed a better recipe for white bread. Therefore, I started looking online and am so glad I found this one. It’s delicious! Thank you so much!
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Valentina’s Corner
I’m so glad you enjoyed the recipe, Brigitte. Thanks so much for visiting our online kitchen.
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Ad
Brigette, would you mind sharing your rye bread recipe, please.
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Tracie
This was the first recipe I tried in my bread machine (just today) Turned out awesome!
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Valentina’s Corner
Tracie, we love making the bread in the bread maker. It’s so easy to make and so delicious. I’m so glad you enjoyed your bread loaf.
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Ginger
I made a loaf using a different recipe last night. It was a failure (which I made into croutons). I found your recipe today and it was a success! My previous attempt failed because I didn’t proof the yeast. Thank you for teaching something new to this novice bread baker.
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Valentina’s Corner
Ginger, that is so wonderful! I’m so glad you enjoyed the bread recipe. You should try THIS bread recipe next. It is one of our favorite bread recipes.
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Linda
This will be my go to recipe – delicious! Thank-you for this!
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Valentina’s Corner
Thank you for trying our recipe, Linda. I’m so glad you enjoyed the bread machine’s white bread recipe.
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Donna
So this doesn’t use Instant Yeast in a breadmachine??
The main disadvantage I have found is that it is often quite hard to make the perfect loaf of bread. The paddle that kneads and mixes the dough often becomes stuck in the bread, usually only at one end so when it is removed it can cause a hole at the end of the bread which is a nightmare for trying to make sandwiches.
Cause: typical of too much flour (or other dry ingredients) or not enough liquid; less often a result of too little yeast, too little sugar, too much salt, or old ingredients. Here's what you can try doing to improve your loaf: Reduce your flour* or increasing your liquids.
Making bread from a machine is marginally cheaper than buying it, as long as you eat bread frequently enough to offset the cost of the appliance. Specifically, I see this as an investment that's smart for households that go through bread quickly, like large families or homes with multiple roommates.
And because a bread machine is also more energy efficient than a home oven, creating a lot less heat in the kitchen, it can be an ideal way to bake bread when you're dealing with a warm environment or even if, for some reason, you need to bake bread but don't have access to a full kitchen.
Some attribute the demise of the bread machine to the fact that cooks were just disappointed by their results. Lara Pizzorno, the author of Bread Machine Baking, chalked it up to food snobs who regarded the machine as “the electric equivalent of The Bridges of Madison County” in a 1996 article in The New York Times.
3. Healthier Options. Using a bread maker means you'll know exactly what you've put into your bread, unlike store-bought alternatives which can be pumped full of synthetic additives.
King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour, with its high gluten, is an excellent flour for bread machines. Numerous people have told us that their recipes worked in the bread machine using King Arthur, when they didn't work with other all-purpose flours.
Starch helps the dough by trapping the gas from the yeast in the dough and makes the bubbles stronger. This helps the bread to rise and be lighter and fluffier. If you are boiling potatoes, you can use the unsalted water in place of the water in your bread recipe to help out the yeast.
If you make a bread dough with all-purpose flour, the gluten network won't be as strong because of the lower protein content; this means the dough won't be able to stretch as much to accommodate those bubbles, resulting in smaller bubbles and bread with a tighter crumb.
Yes, you can easily use all purpose flour in a bread machine. All purpose flour is used in many bread machine recipes, especially sweet “quick breads” such as banana bread, pumpkin bread, gingerbread, zucchini bread, etc. You can also use all purpose flour to replace bread flour in many sandwich-type breads (esp.
Manufacturers usually recommend adding the liquids first, followed by dry ingredients, with the yeast going in last. This keeps the yeast away from the liquid ingredients until kneading begins.
What effect does milk have when used in a yeast bread recipe? Using milk in place of all or some of the water in your dough will make your dough softer. It's really best to experiment yourself and see what you think of the result. Start by replacing 25% of the water in your recipe with milk and see if you prefer that.
For breads such as a larger crusty sourdough loaf, or a pan loaf I would typically wait 1-2 hours before slicing. Whole Grain and rye breads should be all the way down to room temperature before slicing. If you plan to freeze the bread, I have always waited until the loaves are completely cool before freezing.
The beauty of a bread machine is that it will complete all the mixing, kneading, and proofing. It's far more than a countertop bread oven. It allows you to enjoy freshly baked bread even if you're no good at baking. And it'll give you consistent results every time, you don't even have to stay home while it works.
Too little yeast, your bread won't rise sufficiently; too much, and it will rise and collapse. It's important to watch your dough as it rises and bakes; dough that has risen and collapsed may look just like dough that never rose at all, once it's baked.
RapidRise® and Bread Machine Yeast are formulated and processed differently than Active Dry Yeast. RapidRise® and Bread Machine Yeast are grown with a higher level of nutrients and are dried to lower moisture content.
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