
There is something deeply satisfying about pulling a golden, fragrant loaf out of your bread machine, and this white bread delivers exactly that kind of simple, homemade joy. Store-bought sandwich bread is one of the trickiest products to navigate when you're avoiding industrially processed vegetable and seed oils, since they show up in nearly every commercial loaf on the shelf. This recipe sidesteps all of that with just six clean ingredients — water, unsalted butter, sugar, salt, bread flour, and yeast — nothing refined or processed beyond what you'd expect in a classic home kitchen. The unsalted butter does the heavy lifting that oil would normally handle, giving the crumb a tender, rich texture that's genuinely hard to beat. Your bread machine takes care of the kneading, proofing, and baking, so the effort on your end is minimal while the results feel anything but. Letting the loaf cool on a wire rack before slicing is the one step worth being patient about — it keeps the crumb light and airy instead of gummy. Once you've made this a couple of times, going back to the packaged stuff is going to feel like a real step down.
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Add the ingredients to the bread machine pan in the order listed: water, butter, sugar, salt, bread flour, and yeast. Make a small well in the center of the flour and pour the yeast into it, keeping the yeast away from the salt.
Insert the pan into the bread machine, select the Basic or White Bread cycle, choose your preferred crust color (medium is recommended), and press Start. The full cycle will run approximately 3 hours.
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