Bread for Dad

Lots of bread recipes on the web.  Millions of them (yet one more series, from Betty Crocker).  The most basic bread machine white bread I know of, and use, is:

2 pound loaf of bread:

• 13 oz of milk (1.5 cups and 2 T.) - should be warm.  75-85 degrees.  Don't boil it.
• 2 T. butter
• 4 cups of flour - most recipes say use bread flour.  Regular flour works just fine
• 1.5 t. salt
• 2.5 T. sugar
• 2.25 t. dry yeast - little less if you use bread machine yeast, but it really doesn't matter, just use 2.25.

1.5 pound loaf of bread:

• 11 oz of milk (1.25 cups + 2 T.) - should be warm.  75-85 degrees.  Don't boil it.
• 2 T. butter
• 3.33 cups flour
• 1.25 t. salt
• 2 T. sugar
• 2 t. dry yeast

For egg bread, cut 1/3 of the milk and substitute with 2 eggs in both cases.