White Bread - Bread Machine - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup water, 120f
2 teaspoons yeast
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons powdered milk
2 tablespoons butter, cubed into one eighths
3 cups flour

Preparation

Proof the yeast: Put 1/4 cup of warm water into cup with 1 tablespoon Surgar and 2 teaspoons of yeast.
put dry ingredients into bread maker.
flour, salt, dry milk, Surgar, butter.
add water & finally the proofed yeast.
set bread maker on 'basic' recipe, 1 1/2 loaf, medium cook.
push 'start'.
About 3 1/2 hours later you should have a beautiful loaf of white bread.
You need a high quality serrated bread knife to slice the finished loaf. Otherwise you get the squashed bread effect.