Anise Easter Bread Bread Machine Loaf - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3/4 cup warm whole milk or 2 percent milk
2 large eggs
1 large egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons anise flavoring (or 3 tsp. if desired)
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup soft room temp. butter
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons gluten (optional)
1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast

Preparation

Place in order of your manufacturers instructions for your bread machine (makes 1 1/2 pound loaf).
Place on sweet bread setting, light crust.
Checking as mixing that it forms a smooth slight tacky ball of dough.
If dough is sloppy, add a tsp, flour at a time.
If dough is too hard like, add a tsp milk, at a time.
Although at this time I did not have to adjust my dough upon mixing.
Remove when completed baking, to a wire rack.
Cool thoroughly before cutting with a serrated bread knife, or before storing.