Making homemade bread in the breadmaker

About 3 years ago I was visiting a friend and she made fresh bread.   It only took a minute to put all the ingredients in the breadmaker and two hours later we enjoyed warm homemade bread with butter that melted in.   It was so good.  At that moment I decided I just had to get my own breadmaker.   Since then I make all my own everyday bread and when I buy bread now, I only get special loaves and types of bread that take a little more thought to make at home and that I would need to plan to make if I was going to.   This bread is my everyday recipe.   It lasts for about 3 days and I use it for toast in the mornings and sandwiches to take to work for lunch.

This post is especially appropriate today as 16 October is World Bread Day and so I am sending it to Zorra at Kochtopf

Ingredients

3 1/3 g fast action dried yeast

500g seed & grain white bread flour*

1 tbsp dried milk

1 tbsp castor sugar

2 tsp salt

Approx 15 ml oil

350 ml water

How to make Homemade Seed and Grain Bread

1. Sprinkle the yeast in the bottom of the bread pan.  Put the flour on top.

2. Add the sugar, milk powder and salt.  Drizzle with the oil.  Add the water.

3.Put the pan in the breadmaker and bake according to the settings for your machine.  I use fast bake as I find the bread keeps fresh for longer than when I use the standard setting.

* I usually use Allinson Seed and Grain white bread flour which contains wheat and barley flakes, kibbled rye, sunflour seeds, linseed and millet.   You could just use mixed seeds and white bread flour.