Everyday Bread (French Bread) Abm Bread Machine

angie_pangie's Note:

This is our everyday bread that we use for sandwiches and toast. It's dairy and egg free which makes it a favorite of mine - this also makes it safe to use the bread machine timer. This recipe makes a 2 pound loaf, but you can easily halve it for smaller machines.

• Total Time: 3 hrs 5 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients:

Serves: 4-6

Yield: 1.0 slice

• 2 ¼ teaspoons yeast
• 4 cups bread flour
• 1 1⁄3; teaspoons sugar
• 1 ½ teaspoons salt
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon clover honey (or any type you prefer)
• 1 ½ cups water

Directions:

1. Add ingredients in the order listed to your bread machine, or follow the manufacturers directions for adding ingredients.
2. Choose the basic cycle with regular or light crust. Rapid cycle will work, too.

Reviews

[urbadave]

Simple and tasty bread. I have a Zojirushi bread machine and set it for light crust. It cooked it too light. I think this bread will have a naturally light colored crust, so you can leave it at the normal setting, or even dark crust. Yummy bread though.

[DanaJoy!]

This is now my favorite bread recipe. I didn't have the total 4 cups of bread flour. I only had 2 of the cups so I used 2 cups of all purpose flour. I have a special pan that shapes 2 loaves and this worked perfectly. I also put a pan of water under my loaves to bake. A few tablespoons extra of water helped me to shape on counter with added flour but to be honest, it was a little sticky rolling out but the end result was perfect. I don't think I have made better bread.

[Sage]

I know you have had good reviews, but I always enjoy getting them. I 've been looking for a nice French Bread recipe for my ABM. Love this one and made a couple of small breads and 4 large buns for paninis. Followed the recipe except I used onecup whole wheat flour; I did add water, but I seems to do that for every recipe.I love the crust, the texture. Will be making this one againa and again. Thanks. I included a pic of my prize.
Rita