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HONEY BUTTERMILK BREAD

1 package of yeast
3 cups bread flour
1-½ teaspoons salt
¾ cup buttermilk
3 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon sweet butter
½ cup warm water

As with all bread machine recipes, use ingredients at room temperature, and follow the rule for your machine, reading the recipe down from the top or up from the bottom, as needed.
I use buttermilk powder and water according to the label. I use any butter or oleo that's handy. Making a special trip to collect the exact ingredients listed for a recipe is a luxury as to both time and money, which I indulge in now and then for a really elegant recipe. What would I do with the rest of the buttermilk? Or the butter? Start another recipe with some other ingredients that would give me still other left-overs?

If a bread machine loaf doesn't rise, the water or another ingredient was too hot or too cold, the flour was not bread flour, the yeast was too old, or you let the yeast and the water get together too soon. For water temperature a safe rule is the same as for the baby's bottle: if you can't feel a drop on the inside of your wrist, the water is just right at body temperature.

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Last updated February 26, 2003
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