White Bread Recipe for Bread Machine

Makes one loaf
Charlotte
Ingredients
1 1/3 cup water
2 tablespoons Powdered milk, optional
2 tablespoons Shortening
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tsp. salt
3 cups flour
2 tsp. of quick rising yeast, yeast for bread machines.

Instructions
Put the water in the bread machine; add the rest of the ingredients in order listed. Set bread machine for white bread. The bread will cook.  Take a nap.

Variations:
Cooking Instructions using the dough setting:  
Usually use the Dough setting, this takes about two hours or remove dough after first mixing  from the bread machine and place in a bowl and let it rise until double on countertop. After Dough cycle is complete or dough on countertop is doubled, punch down dough, shape into buns or small loaves of bread.  Let dough rise again and bake in preheated 375F oven for 25 to 30 minutes until done.  After baking, grease top of bread with shortening, oil or butter. Remove from baking pan after 5 minutes and cool on wire rack.

Hint: See the regular white bread recipe for the baking times and for variations you can make with bread dough, for example, cinnamon buns.

Raisin Bread:  
To make raisin bread using the white bread recipe above, make the following changes to the recipe. Put one egg in a measuring cup, beat the egg and add enough water to the egg to make 1 ½ cup of liquid. Also use 1/3 cup sugar (instead of 2 tbsp). Add ½ cup raisins after the dough has mixed; follow the instructions indicated on your machine for sweet bread.

Cardamom Bread:  Add ½ tsp ground cardamom to the raisin bread.

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