{"id":257,"slug":"basic-bread-dough","title":"Basic Bread Dough","description":"This recipe makes a little more dough than enough for a 1-pound loaf of bread. It is intended to be kneaded in a bread machine, and baked in an oven.","ingredients_raw":["1 cup (237 g) Warm water (heated for about 40 seconds in the microwave)","2 teaspoons (10 mL) (8.4 g) Sugar","1 teaspoon (5 mL) (6 g) Salt","2 cups (274 g) High-gluten (strong/bread) flour","1-4 teaspoon (5-20 mL) (4-16 g) Active dry yeast","1 tablespoon (7-21 g) Honey"],"ingredients_norm":["warm water","sugar","salt","high gluten flour","active dry yeast","honey"],"steps":["Add ingredients to a 2-pound capacity bread machine in the order listed, select dough cycle, and press start.","Remove when cycle is complete.","Preheat oven to 400 °F (200 °C)","When dough is finished, form into desired shape on a floured surface, and place on baking sheet or pizza stone.","Bake until lightly brown and firm. Cooking time will vary with altitude (20–40 minutes).","Cool and enjoy."],"categories":["Bread recipes","Recipes for bread","Baking recipes","Recipes using granulated sugar","Recipes using bread flour"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":180,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Basic_Bread_Dough","source_ref":"4595347","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Basic_Bread_Dough&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"af639bea7321e31275756e10cf5a59c4332cb46466bd965215937e74ea64aaa6","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:35:14Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/basic-bread-dough"}