Step 1

Note that this recipe is for a two-pound machine. Use the basic or white cycle with medium crust.

Step 2

Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the bread machine first. With my machine (a Zojirushi BB-PAC20 Virtuoso), I add the liquid first.

Step 3

Check on the dough after five or ten minutes of kneading.  Just pop the top of the bread machine and see how the dough is doing.  It should be a smooth, round ball.