Basic Bread

== Bread machine recipe by Bernardo Chalas ==
===Ingredients===
* 1¼ cups warm water 
* 1 tablespoon softened butter 
* 1 tablespoon white sugar
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 3 cups bread or all purpose flour
* 2 tablespoons dry milk powder
* 1 (.25 oz) packet active dry yeast
==Directions==
Place the ingredients in the pan of the bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer, select the "White Bread" setting or set the timer to 3 hours or whatever is recommended by the manufacturer.
== Hand made bread recipe ==
If making the bread by hand, you can use this method:
===Ingredients===
* 700g of bread flour
* 1 tablespoon of salt (or less according to taste)
* 1 teaspoon easy blend yeast
* 1 teaspoon of sugar (optional)
* 425ml of tepid water
==Directions==
# Put the dry ingredients into a bowl and add the water.
# Knead this until it's a firm dough.
# When the dough is springy, put it in a bowl and cover it with cling film, and then leave it until it's doubled in size. 
# Then punch the air out of it, and then put it in a bread tin and cover that in a sealed plastic bag until it's risen again.
# Then, after taking off the plastic bag, put the bread tin in the oven at gas mark 8, 450 °F, 230 °C for about 35 minutes.
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