I love fresh bread, there's little that can beat the taste and texture of it fresh from the oven. But sometimes I just don't have time, or I'm just not organised enough, to make it all by hand. So this is where my bread machine comes into it's own. Hands up who has a bread machine? And hands up who hasn't used it in ages? That's about to change.....
Ingredients you will need:
310ml water
30g butter, chopped
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp. sugar
600g white bread flour
1 egg
2 tsp dried yeast
You'll need to add the ingredients according to the instructions for your machine, but for mine it's this order- water, butter, salt and sugar, then flour, egg and yeast.
Put it on the dough setting and let the bread machine work it's magic. The dough cycle on my machine takes 1 hour and 20 minutes.
As soon as it's finished, you can tip the dough out and break it into 12 pieces, and roll each one into a ball. Put them onto two greased baking trays and bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes at 200 degrees, or until cooked and golden brown.
Then remove them and transfer to a wire rack to cool. Or, leave to cool as long as is needed to enable you to hold them without burning your fingers, break apart, spread with butter and enjoy!!
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