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Put all the ingredients in the bread machine, and choose the 'soft bread' option or the 'light crust' option and press start.
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If you are baking this in a bread pan: After the 1st rising is done, lightly deflate the dough, divide it into 4 portions and leave to rest for 15 minutes, taking care not to let it dry out.
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Once again deflate the dough, and round off neatly.
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Place the dough balls with the seam sides down in a bread pan, and let rise again (2nd rise) at 35C for about 40 minutes (until the dough rises up to about the rim of the pan).
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Make a rather deep slash on top, and top the slash with butter.
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Bake the bread at 180 C for 30 minutes.
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I'm not good at slashing bread, so I just cut it with kitchen scissors.
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When it's finished baking, drop the pan from about a 30cm height onto your countertop to release the steam, then remove the loaf from the pan.
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It's soft, fluffy and moist.
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If using a 1.5 loaf size bread machine to bake this: If you have a 1.5 loaf size bread machine, use the ingredient amounts listed for a 1 loaf.
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In the machine.
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This dough rises up very well, so if you use the 1.5 loaf amounts it will turn out like this.
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If using a 1 loaf size bread machine to bake this: If you have a 1-loaf size bread machine, use the amounts indicated in [ ] brackets.
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Of course you can use the 1-loaf amounts, take the dough out and bake it in the oven instead.
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I made crisscross cuts in the dough after the 2nd rise using kitchen scissors, and placed pats of butter in the cuts.
