Farmhouse Loaf Bread

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scant 1 cup water
3 cups unbleached white bread flour, plus extra for dusting
1/4 cup wholemeal bread flour
1 tbsp non fat dry milk
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp granulated sugar
1 tbsp butter
3/4 tsp rapid-rise yeast
water for glazing

Assemble ingredients except dusting flour and water for glazing in pan; set bread machine to basic cycle.

Ten minutes before baking time commences, brush the top of the loaf with water and dust with a little flour.  Slash the top of the loaf once with a sharp knife.

THINGS I CHANGED:

Nothing.

THINGS I LEARNED:

• Opening the bread machine before the baking cycle doesn't ruin the bread!  I did the little dusting technique, and it worked well and looked cool.  Yay!
• Bread doesn't need a lot of fancy or unusual ingredients to be really, really good.  This is a really basic loaf, and it's delicious.  It's also very weighty. 
• My bread machine will probably support a medium loaf.  This was the small loaf, and it was perfect for the evening we used it, but there was definitely room left in the machine for more bread.  Then again, it didn't rise up over the top of the pan, so maybe small is just perfect.  I'm still working it out...

OVERALL OPINIONS:

Bill: Liked it.

Emma: Liked it a lot.  She had two pieces.

Georgia: LOVED it.  Had two pieces and another for breakfast the next morning.   The girl loves bread, to be sure, but she really loved this bread.

Me:  I really liked it.  I served it with Pork roast from the crock pot (with carrots, potatoes, onions, and celery). It's a very heavy, thick loaf, and it's quite filling.  Great with a little butter.  Mmmm...

Guests: We had guests over for dinner the night we had the bread, and they liked it, too, I believe.  Their son who is Georgia's age had two pieces.