Bread Machine Dough Recipe

4.60 from 20 votes

1 Cup Water Warmed (110 - 115 degrees)
1 Tbsp Milk
2 Tbsp Oil
2 Tbsp Honey If you don't have any, you can skip this, and it will still turn out fine!
2 Tbsp Brown Sugar
1 tsp Salt
3 Cups All Purpose Flour You can also substitute with half whole wheat flour
2 tsp Instant Active Dry Yeast

Heat 1 cup of water to 110 degrees. (If you don't have a thermometer, just use slightly hot tap water and it will be just fine. (really!) I never use a thermometer and never have any problems with my bread machine dough rising.)
Put all ingredients in the order above into bread machine (you don’t need to stir it , just dump it in!) Water, milk, oil, honey, brown sugar, salt, flour, then finally - yeast.
Set bread machine on dough setting, and let it make the dough for you over the next couple hours.
Once dough is made (it takes my machine about 1 1/2 hours to make just the dough), remove dough and place in loaf pan.
Let bread machine dough rise for about 30 minutes to an hour, until it's around double the size. When I don't have time to let it rise, I just go ahead and bake it a little sooner and it works out fine. This recipe is extremely forgiving! Towards the end of this time, preheat oven to 350.
Bake bread dough in 350 degree oven for 30 minutes, and enjoy!