Free Bread Machine by Beth Hensperger Page B

are using a Welbilt machine, add 2 additional tablespoons of water . Add the salt. Measure and add the rest of the dry ingredients to the liquid. Don’t worry about mixing anything, just add the ingredients one at a time: bread flour, whole wheat flour, gluten, and sugar.
    Make a small indentation in the top of the dry ingredients. Measure the yeast and add it to the pan, dropping it into the depression (or place it in the yeast dispenser after you close the lid in step 7, if your machine requires it), taking care not to let the yeast touch any of the liquid. The salt and yeast should not come in contact when using the Delayed Timer (this type of layering will prevent that). Wipe clean the edge of the pan around the rim.
    Replace the bread pan in the machine and click it into place in the bottom of the oven floor. Fold down the handle, close the lid, and plug in the machine. The display surface will light up and there will be a beep.
    Program the bread machine for the cycle appropriate to the type of bread you are making. In this case, the desired cycles are Basic or French Bread. Consult your owner’s manual for the clearest instructions for programming your machine.
     If applicable, press the loaf control button and select the size loaf. Press the setting for the desired crust color. Choose medium for this loaf.
    The total time for the cycle you have chosen—Basic or French Bread, about 3 1 / 2 to 4 hours—will come up on the display. Check your manufacturer’s manual to see how far ahead you can program the Delay Timer. Figure out what time you want to have the finished bread. For example, say you want fresh bread ready at 5:00 P.M. to eat for dinner. You are setting up the machine at 8:00 A.M. before you leave for work. You must do some math here. It is 9 hours until you want the bread to be finished baking.
    There are two Timer buttons, one ascending and one descending. Each push of the button will increase or decrease the amount of time programmed by a certain interval, 10 minutes or 20 minutes, for example. Continue pressing the ascending Timer button until you see the amount of time you want displayed on the screen, 9 hours. (Continually pressing a button will cause the increments to register very quickly, like when you set your bedside digital clock.) If you press the ascending button too many times, you can correct the time by pressing the descending Timer button, which will subtract time. When you finish, the display should read 9:00, or 9 hours, which includes the time for mixing, rising, and baking the bread.
    Press the On or Start button to begin the Timer. The colon (:) on the screen will flash to indicate that the Delay Timer is in progress. You can look at the display any time of the day and see the countdown. Clean up the work area. If you have made a mistake or decide to bake the bread at a different time, press and hold Stop/Reset. This will clear everything that you have programmed, and you can start all over again.
    Set a cooling rack on the counter. When the baking cycle ends, the machine will automatically go into a Keep Warm/Cool Down phase in case you can’t remove the bread from the pan immediately.
     When you are ready to remove the bread from the pan, press Stop and unplug the machine. Carefully open the lid. Using heavy oven mitts to hold the handle, remove the pan by pulling it up and out of the hot machine. If your bread pan is thin, set it on the cooling rack and let it stand for 5 minutes to allow the bread to contract slightly from the sides of the pan before turning out the bread. Otherwise, remove the bread from the pan immediately by turning the pan upside down and shaking it a few times to release the loaf. Make sure the handle is out of the way so the loaf is not damaged by hitting it as it comes out of the pan. Check to see whether the kneading blade has come off the shaft and is still embedded in the loaf.
    Place the loaf upright on the rack to cool to room