Homemade Bread

.....well, sort of! I love homemade bread! And I have found that I prefer to put all my ingredients into my bread maker and let it do the work! My kids even prefer the homemade bread to the store bought bread. I use a recipe my mom gave me that came with the very first bread maker she ever owned.

Basic White Bread (2 lb. loaf)
2 eggs @ room temperature plus water to equal 1 1/3 cups
1 tsp. lemon juice
2 Tbsp. oil
2 tsp. salt
2 1/2 Tbsp. sugar
1/4 cup dry milk
4 cups bread flour
2 3/4 tsp. yeast

Put all ingredients into the bread maker in the order listed. Here is what it looks like in the bread maker:


Then 3 hours and 25 minutes later this is what you get: