Best White Bread

Wow! This white bread will knock your socks off! Super tasty! Found this recipe in the instruction manual for our KitchenAid Stand Mixer.

1/2 cup low-fat milk
3 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons butter or margarine (I used 1 1/2 T. of each)
.4 Oz active dry yeast
1 1/2 cups warm water (I run the water in the faucet until it gets hot)
5 to 6 cups all-purpose flour

1. Combine milk, sugar, salt, and butter into a small saucepan. Heat over medium heat until butter is melted and sugar and salt have dissolved. Allow mixture to cool to luke warm.

2. While mixture is cooling, warm mixing bowl by swirling with hot water. Add 1 1/2 cups of warm water. Sprinkle in yeast. Allow to sit for 5 minutes and stir if necessary. Add lukewarm mixture and 4 1/2 cups of flour.

3. Mix on level 2 for 1 minute and 1/2 cup at a time, add remaining flour. Allow to continue mixing with dough hook until dough sticks to the hook, and cleans the sides of the bowl.

4. Place dough into greased bowl, flipping 1x. Cover with tea towel and allow to rise for 1 hour in a warm, draft free location. (I warmed the oven to 400 for 1 minute and then turned it off and placed bowl on center rack) Removed dough from bowl and divide in half. Roll dough out onto floured surface with floured rolling pin. After dough is rolled out to approximately 14x9, roll dough tucking and pinching ends. Place into 9x5 bread pan.

5. Allow to rise 1 hour covered in warm location. Preheat oven to 400 for baking. Bake for 30 minutes in a 400 degree oven. Remove from pan immediately and allow to cool on a rack.

ENJOY!