5 Stars Soft White Bread 五星级白吐司

This is a simple loaf of soft white bread that is easy even for beginners. You can either bake it in the bread machine or in the oven. Great for everyday, no-frills kind of bread!

I was revisiting some of my older posts and recipes that I tried years ago. And I came to this 5 Stars Soft White Bread by a Japanese author, which I really like back then 🙂

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I remembered I just started on the bread machine at that time, and was really clueless in making bread. So, this bread was a great beginner recipe for me!

This time, I decided to knead the dough using the bread machine, before manually punch out the air and shape it, and baked in the oven.

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Bread Machine VS Oven Baked

Anyway, back to the bread machine! You may ask: what’s the difference?

I have realised that manually shaping and baking the bread in the oven yields a loaf of bread with better texture – especially for those recipes that have higher hydration ratio.

Previously there were loaves that I baked using the bread machine, where those dense “kueh” layers form at the bottom of the bread. It’s probably because it was slightly underbaked.

However, as I have mentioned earlier, bread machine is really a time saver. It is also really a great tool if we really don’t know how to bake bread, or no time to make the dough from scratch and shape it for baking.

For this 5 star soft white bread, I only rolled up the dough once before placing into the loaf pan to proof. It gives a lighter and slightly more airy bread. If you prefer a finer and tighter crumbed loaf of bread, you can roll up the dough twice.

What Ingredients Do I Need?

This loaf of bread uses very basic ingredients that we can commonly find in our pantry:

• Bread Flour
• Unsalted Butter: Use slightly chilled butter that is cut into pats.
• Caster Sugar
• Salt
• Instant Yeast
• Egg
• Water: Use chilled water.

5 Stars Soft White Bread 五星级白吐司

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• Prep Time: 25 minutes + 120 Mins Proofing
• Cook Time: 25 minutes
• Total Time: 150 minutes
• Yield: 1 x 450g Loaf Bread 1x

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Description

A simple but delicious loaf of soft white bread that uses simple pantry ingredients.

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Ingredients

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• 275 g bread flour
• 30 g unsalted butter, chilled
• 30 g sugar
• 3 g salt
• 3.5 g instant yeast (about 1 and 1/8 tsp)
• 30 g egg (beaten), chilled
• 140 g – 150g cold water*

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Instructions

1. Place ingredients into bread machine to complete dough kneading cycle. I am using Panasonic SD-P104, Menu 11. You can also select Menu 9 to include first proof inside the bread machine.
2. Once dough kneading cycle is complete (about 15 mins for mine), remove dough and shape into a ball. Place a pc of cling wrap over the dough and let it proof for about 45 mins.
3. Punch out air and roll out the dough into a rectangular shape. Roll the dough up along the long side. Place into greased or lined bread loaf pan. Proof for 45 – 60 mins.
4. Preheat oven to 180C. Once the proofing has completed, bake in the preheated oven for about 25-30 mins. Let cool completely before storing in airtight container, or slicing.

Equipment

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Notes

For water, you can add in 140g to knead first. When dough comes together and if it looks dry, slowly add the rest of the water.

Recipe adapted from 荻山和也×麵包機魔法60變

• Category: Bread, Breakfast
• Method: Bake

Keywords: Bread

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