the SmockLady

This is actually a potato bread recipe, but it is our standard loaf of white bread. I make two loaves a day.
Ingredients:
3 cups of bread flour
1/2 cup of dry potato flakes
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons of salt
1 1/2 tablespoons oil
1 1/8 cups of warm water
2 teaspoons active dry yeast
1 1/2 tablespoons of instant powdered milk*

*(I use Better Than Milk Rice Beverage Mix Original Light because of CowBoy’s allergy’s )

Directions:
Add these ingredients to your bread machine in the order suggested by its manufacturer. Select Basic, White, or Dough and hit start.

NOTE:
My bread machine has me add all the liquid first and the dry next. So this is what I do to make bread making faster and easier. I set out my mixing bowls and begin adding the dry ingredients one at a time to each bowl. First, the flour to every bowl, then the potato flakes to every bowl, etc. until I have added every dry ingredient, except the yeast, to evey bowl. I mix the dry goods in each bowl thoroughly, then using a large serving spoon I pour each bowl of dry mix into a premarked quart size freezer bag. These bags are marked with the basic instructions for the rest of the process (I’ll get to that later). Then I place these bags in my freezer until I am ready to make some bread. The rest is rather easy.

OK, now for the bags.
I have this recipe memorized, but if SmockDaddy or a child should want to make the bread the instructions are right there. I reuse the marked bags until they are no longer usable.
This is what my bags say:
1. add 1 1/8 cups warm water
2. add 1 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil
3. carefully pour in contents of this bag
4. add 2 teaspoons active yeast
5. select dough
6. press start

My bread machine sounds an alarm right before the last kneading cycle is complete (for adding any nuts or fruits) so I know that this is when I can take out my dough for cooking. I don’t like to cook my bread in my machine. I use a stone loaf-pan for its shape and size. (This recipe will cook beautifully in the machine.) I rub a few drops of oil on my hands and on the clean counter (or pastry mat) where I shape the dough into a loaf size. I turn on my oven to 325F and let it preheat. I cover my bread and place it in a warm corner of the kitchen to rise, which usually takes about 30 minutes. It cooks to a beautiful color in 25 minutes (this may vary depending on the accuracy of your oven).

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