CI White Bread by cowgirl

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CI White Bread
Submitted by cowgirl on March 29, 2003 at 12:41 pm

DESCRIPTION
ci white bread

SUMMARY
Yield 0 File under Yeast Bread/Rolls (not sourdough)

INSTRUCTIONS
Cooks illustrated white bread

This is my favorite plain bread if I don’t have time for sourdough…well, except moomies, of course!

3-1/2 cups bread flour
1 pckg. Yeast
2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. sugar or honey ( ci version: 3 tbsp.)
1 tbsp. butter ( ci version: 2 tbsp.)
1 cup milk & 1/3 cup water, warmed

mix everything together with a mixer, knead about 6 minutes. Let rise in warm place for 1 hr. , turn dough onto work surface and knead together, avoid adding too much flour during kneading. Shape into loaf: press out dough into a rectangle about the length of the pan and fold like a letter, place in 9x5 pan and let rise for 45 min.
bake in preheated 350° oven on low rack for 40-50 min. cool one minute in pan and turn out onto racks.

Notes: ci suggests to use rapid rise yeast, I usually use fresh yeast and increase the rising times a bit. I also shortened the instructions, but if you know a bit about breadmaking this is fine. Following are my fav variations:

- Sunflower-spelt-honey:
Use honey as sweetener, use ½ bread and ½ spelt flour, add about ¾ cup sunflower seeds.

- flaxseed:
use honey as sweetener, use ½ bread and ½ whole wheat flour, add about ½ c crushed flaxseed

- oatmeal:
bring ¾ c water to a boil, add ¾ cup rolled oats, cook about 90 seconds. Decrease flour in recipe to 2-3/4 cups and omit the 1/3 water, add oatmeal to ingredients in bowl. I like to molasses or brown sugar in the oatmeal bread.

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