This bread dough recipe is soft, sweet, and extremely user friendly - use it for everything ranging from crescent rolls to pizza crust or strombolli. Shaped, filled, or rolled out, it holds up and freezes well.
Ciabatta Bread is an artisinal sourdough-type bread from Italy. it makes great sandwiches - especially grilled ones, and has a chewy outer crust and flavourful crumb. You'll need to start this bread the day before you want to eat it.
This bread takes a little more watching and tending (throwing the ice cubes in the oven every ten minutes or so makes the crust really crisp and chewy), but it's entirely worth it!
This recipe was inspired by one I found in a Southern cookbook. The people of the South have an inimitable way of baking their bread so that it is floatingly light, without losing any richness and moisture. Perhaps it has something to do with all of the shortening and dairy in a typical southern-style bread recipe. In any case, this recipe is great for someone who wants a simple, sweet white bread to serve at dinner.
This recipe makes a very nice, plain white bread, similar to the types of white bread you used to be able to buy in the past at your local neighborhood bakery. The loaf has a nice buttery flavor, thanks in part to the generous dribble of real dairy butter that is placed over the bread batter at the last minute.
Any of our bread recipes can be converted for a breadmaker, as well as
being used in breadmaker recipes that you'll find online. Below you'll find instructions for making a bread machine loaf. We've also included a simple bread machine recipe here for you.