Milk Bread

I had some friends over the other day and decided to make some bread (cheating of course by using my bread machine) and had many requests for the recipe after. So here it goes, this is for a medium-size loaf. Sorry no picture, it was devoured too quickly.... in a lady-like fashion of course.

Milk Bread

3 C bread flour

1 1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 Tbsp dry milk

1 1/2 Tbsp butter

1 1/2 Tbsp sugar

1 1/4 C milk

1 tsp dry yeast

1. Put all ingredients in

2. Push all the correct buttons (M loaf, bake mode...)

3. Wait a few hours and become intoxicated by the smell of fresh bread

4. Slice and eat

I also made some apricot whipped butter (simply whip a stick of butter, then add some apricot jam and whip it good). My sister and I saw the Barefoot Contessa make it with orange jam and we couldn't resist trying it. I used apricot jam (probably about a half of the jar) from Trader Joe's.

Who had the idea to put zucchini in bread?

I asked this question to my husband as it doesn't sound right, but let me tell you this bread is right.

Zucchini Bread

1 1/2 cup flour (I used 1 cup white, 1/2 cup whole wheat)

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 cup zucchini (we had about 1 1/2 cups)

1 cup sugar (recipe didn't specify, so I used brown sugar)

1 egg

1/4 cup oil (I used apple sauce)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a bread pan. Mix first ingredients together. Mix second set of ingredients together in a separate bowl. Combine the zucchini mixture to the flour mixture. Bake for 50-55 minutes.