Buttermilk Honey Bread with Breadmaker

Stumbled upon this book ‘Bread Machine Cookbook’  by Jacqueline Bellefontaine in MPH.  I have quite a few books on bread making but none of them is dedicated for bread making using a breadmaker.  Thought I might as well buy and try it out.

The first bread that caught my attention is the Honey Buttermilk Bread.  Since I have all the ingredients, I started making it right away.  Did a little modification to the recipe though.

Ingredients :

284mL    buttermilk (or prepare buttermilk by adding in ½ tsp vinegar into 120g milk)

50mL      water

3tbsp      honey

1tsp        salt

500g      bread flour

1 ½ tsp  yeast

Egg

Rolled oats

Procedure :

1)       Put the buttermilk and water into the bread pan.  Add in honey and salt.

2)      Add in the flour, followed by the yeast.

3)      Set the programme of the breadmaker to basic setting, medium crust and press start.

4)      When the rise cycle has completed, egg wash the surface of the loaf and sprinkle with rolled oats.

5)      Once the bake cycle has completed, remove the bread from the pan and let cool.

I removed the kneading blades right after the kneading cycle has completed as I do not like my bread to have big holes at the bottom.    However, there are still 2 holes visible even after the removal of the blades though they are much smaller. 

Bottom of bread where the kneading blades have been removed

During baking, the aroma of the bread was so good that I was very impatient for it to be done.   The bread turned out soft and fluffy with a really crunchy crust.  Taste good too.  This recipe however, is not suitable for making using the delay timer of the breadmaker as it contains milk and the surface needs to be egg washed before the baking cycle starts.