All Purpose Flour Bread Machine Recipe (Country White Bread)

This recipe is NOT for 1 lb capacity bread machines. Please check the capacity of your bread machine before making this recipe. This recipe helps you to create a 1.5 lb bread loaf. If you have a small bread machine (e.g. a bread machine that has only a capacity for 1 lb breads), you will be unable to make this recipe. The loaf will be too large for your machine and could overflow the bread pan (and the top is likely to collapse).

Milk and butter help to provide a richer flavor to bread machine white bread recipes. These ingredients also help to soften white breads. Eggs help with things such as color, leavening, structure and moisture in this all purpose flour bread machine recipe.
The interior of country white breads is usually white with a slight tinge of yellow because of the eggs.

The brown sugar adds a slightly richer & deeper flavor (versus using highly processed white granulated sugar). It helps to create a slightly sweet country white bread. However, if you like non-sweet bread then use only 2 tablespoons of brown sugar.

As you probably know, all purpose flour is used to make many types of baked goods (e.g. cookies, cakes… and bread!) whereas bread flour is used primarily for making bread. Most of us have tons of all purpose flour at home (because it is used in so many recipes) but we might not have any bread flour. Therefore, in order to save you from a trip to the supermarket in order to buy bread flour, I created a simple white bread recipe that uses all purpose flour.
You can use low fat milk but whole milk creates a bread with more flavor.

Do NOT use cold milk to make this recipe. The main problem with using regular milk is that people tend to use cold refrigerated milk and this can slow the yeast growth. Try to use warm milk (or instant powdered milk mixed into warm water). However, you should also be aware that the milk/water should not be too hot because very hot milk/water can kill the yeast.