- 1-1/2 cups warm tap water
- 2 tablespoons oil or margarine
- 4 cups of bread flour, or all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
Measure all of the ingredients as accurately as possible. Accurate measuring is very important in the bread machine, especially if you are using the delay cycle.
Begin by removing the bread bucket from the machine. Make sure the kneading paddle is in place. Measure 1-1/2 cups of warm water into the bucket. Add the oil, or margarine. Sprinkle the flour over the water to sort of “seal” it off. Add the salt and sugar. Use your finger to make a small indentation in the center of the flour. Carefully place the yeast into the indentation.
Snap the bread bucket into place inside the bread machine. Close the lid. Select the Basic Cycle. Press the Start Button. You can walk away and leave it now, or you can check it out as it processes, to see how it works.
The machine will begin kneading the dough right away. After about 10 minutes, you should see a nice cohesive ball of dough inside the bread pan. Open the lid and carefully touch the dough with clean hands. It should feel exactly the way good bread dough feels, with a slight clay-like texture, or like a baby’s bottom. If the dough seems dry you can add a little bit of water: a teaspoonful at a time. If the dough seems too moist you can add a little bit of flour: a teaspoonful at a time. This recipe is very well tested, and doesn’t really need water or flour to be added. You can add a teaspoon of each though, if you want the practice.
Watch the dough for as long as you like. When you are bored, make sure the lid is down, and let the machine do it’s business. The dough will mix, then rise, and finally bake. It’s a good idea not to open the lid while the bread is actually baking. The heat loss, may make the bread under cook a little. When the machine beeps, signaling it is done, turn the machine off by pressing the Start/Stop button.
Use potholders to remove the hot bread bucket from the machine. Be careful not to burn yourself. Turn the bread bucket upside down and the dough should fall out easily. If it doesn’t, then tap it gently to get the bread to release itself. If the kneading paddle is stuck inside the loaf you can remove it with a chopstick or the end of a wooden spoon. Do not use a metal tool to remove the kneading blade. Use a plastic or wooden tool, so you don’t mar the non-stick surface of the blade.
Allow the bread to cool down some before you slice it. Use a serrated (bumpy-edged) knife to slice the bread. This recipe makes a 2 pound loaf of bread.
Hello! My new bread machine says that in order to make sure a recipe isn’t going to overflow its ingredients inside my particular machine, make sure that they all add up to around 4 c. (It makes up to a 2 lb. loaf.) Your ingredients for this first-timer’s bread recipe equal more than 4. Should that be a problem for a 2 lb. loaf machine?
Thanks!!!
The following conversion should help you:
1 cup of warm tap water
1-1/2 tablespoons oil or margarine
3 cups of bread flour, or all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon active dry yeast
This recipe says it makes a 2 lb. loaf. What if my breadmachine will only make a 1-1 1/2 lb. loaf?
mine says 1 or 1.5 lb loaf too. I will half the recipe and tell you how it comes out!!!!
Hi,
I live at 1750 m above sea-level, will that effect the bread recipes?
Thanks
My very first loaf in a machine I picked up at a tag sale. It makes a one pound loaf and though it actually tastes great, the loaf barely rose half way up the bucket so it’s a tiny loaf. Any ideas?
I MAKE THIS ALL THE TIME MY FAMILY LOVES IT GLAD I FOUND THIS RECIPE
My kenwood bread machine is MB200 series and is unable to bake any bread that call for 1 1/2tsp yeast and most of the recipes that I found are using more than 1tsp of yeast. What shoud I do about that as my machine is quite new and such a waste to discard it.
By the way, any member know of a new machine in the market that has a bigger capacity? I understand Sanyo has discontinued with the machine and Kenwood has not come out with a new one.
Mine is an Oster Expressbake and I love it. The loaf is also horizontal in shape which I prefer to the vertical. It makes 1.5 and 2 lb. loaf.
WHOOOOO HOOOOO!!!! It worked and the bread is delicious!!! Thank you so much for making the instructions clear, precise and fool proof!
Hi, I have just joined the site and I am impressed by what I have seen so far.
I just received a wonderful gift of a Westpoint wpbm1138 bread maker and I am dying to try making a loaf, unfortunately here are no instructions or recipe manuals. Does anyone have a copy they could e mail to me? I would be so grateful for any help and tips.
Thank you
You can upload the manual for your breadmaker here: http://kitchen.manualsonline.com/ex/product/headline/m/Westpoint/d/bread_maker/p/WPBM-1138
I need bread machine recipes for a machine that makes a 1# loaf. Anyone have any?
They had to drag me kicking and screaming into the bread machine club. Now I love it. A Freecycler gave me a bunch of bread machine cookbooks, one has a bunch of quick bread recipes; leave out the paddle, spray the bucket well with cooking spray and use your machine to make nearly any quick bread, saves heating up the whole house. Josephine, I don’t know if I understand your question but I use the same amount of yeast (1 teaspoon) regardless of the size of my loaf: if I am baking it in the bread machine. If I am just using it to make dough I follow my regualr recipe. I mostly use my machine to make dough these days, perfect pizza and cinnamon rolls!